On the first day, after the army pressed and failed to capture the weak Anyi, the next offensive of Guo Yan's army was still not smooth.

First of all, on the first day, Guo Yan was in a hurry, pressing all the siege equipment and most of the foot soldiers, regardless of casualties and equipment, in order to break the city quickly, and in the end, the result of not breaking the city was the continued weakness of the offensive in the next two days.

Either due to the lack of siege equipment or the ineffective fighting of the soldiers under his command, for several days, Guo Yan's army was not able to make significant progress in other aspects, except for the additional casualties of more than 1,000 people.

Secondly, on the fourth and fifth days, there was bad news in other areas.

Jia Kui, who was originally the messenger of the locust extermination, after gathering Zhao Hong's salt and iron soldiers, ambushed a group of Western Liang soldiers who swept and plundered outside the small city of Hedong Yanjian.

Later, Jia Kui led the army to change into the clothes and armor of Guo Yan's soldiers and horses, and frequently dispatched to encircle and annihilate the small group of soldiers and horses sent out by Guo Yan's army to plunder grain and grain, disturbing the flank of Guo Yan's army day and night.

But when Guo Yan sent Xia Yu a group of soldiers and horses to attack the salt prison in Hedong, Jia Kui had already led his army to withdraw to Yucheng, leaving an empty city to Xia Yu.

Although he did not extinguish Jia Kui's Hedong guerrillas, but at least he was expelled far away and protected the flanks of the army.

As a result, as soon as Xia Yu's soldiers and horses left, Jia Kui quickly led the army back to kill the generals, and also brought reinforcements from Zhai Hao who crossed the river from Henan to the north.

The reinforcements in Hanoi, led by Ma Lin, had already appeared in the territory of Wenxi, although they did not achieve frequent results like Jia Kui, but Ma Lin also led the army and a cavalry of the Xiliang army to cover the battlefield to fight a tough battle in the field.

There were casualties on both sides, and Ma Lin retreated to Wenxi City for the sake of prudence, and the cavalry of Guo Yan's army must not be cautious when entering Wenxi territory, so as to prevent being ambushed by enemy troops who are familiar with the terrain.

Of course, the strength of these small reinforcements is not strong enough, and they can only harass the flanks and share the pressure of Anyi City, and they are far from threatening Guo Yan's army.

Therefore, the most serious of these bad news is the news from a Western Liang soldier stationed in Fenyin:

There is a Hedong soldier and horse, which has entered the territory of Pi from the north and south, and there is a faint trend of going south.

I don't know if it was the troops commanded by Wei Qi, Niu Song and others in Puzi and Beiqu, or the main army of General Pingbei, who was rumored to have won a complete victory in Xihe County, had returned to Hedong with help.

If it was just a small group of reinforcements under the command of Wei Qi, Niu Song and others who tried to rescue Anyi, then Guo Yan could casually send a group of soldiers and horses to drive them back to Beiqu City, but if it was really Yan Xing's army that had arrived, then Guo Yan would have to re-examine the current situation on the battlefield in Hedong.

For this reason, Guo Yanjunzhong has been arguing about the current situation recently.

According to the meaning of Wu Xi and other generals, since the city of Anyi is strong and cannot be captured in a short time, it is better to besiege but not attack, draw out superior forces to sweep other surrounding cities, and take the opportunity to break the reinforcements in Hedong individually.

Even if Yan Xing's main force of soldiers and horses returned to help in the end, their own army would not be able to capture Anyi, then their soldiers and horses plundered in the east of the river and gathered a lot of grain and goods, which could not be regarded as a defeat.

This is the thinking of the majority of generals in the army, and it is also in line with the actual interests of their troops.

But Li Ru, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu and others don't think so. They thought that Guo Yan led a large army to mobilize the people, in order to take advantage of the weakness and capture Hedong County in one fell swoop.

Previously, due to various reasons, a lot of time had been delayed, and if we did not concentrate our forces to capture Anyi now, wouldn't it be a waste of our previous efforts.

Just imagine, only their own army took Anyi, Yan Xing's main force of the horses, the family and the young are all in their hands, the two armies are fighting, Yan Xing's army is unstable, and it can not be defeated.

When the time comes, the Hedong realm can be passed on, and the profit will only be this small wealth and money valley.

This is the idea of the strategists and guests in the army, and it is also in line with their own interests.

On Li Ru's side, Li Wei has used superior forces, dragging Duan Xuan's soldiers and horses and the army that can be flexibly mobilized in Hedong under Tongguan, in order to open up the situation for Guo Yan's army.

And Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's two uncles and nephews hope to take advantage of the opportunity of Guo Yan's army to capture Hedong to seek a foothold for themselves.

In the face of the controversy between the two parties, the emotional and irritable Guo Yan's performance in front of everyone was very distressed, and he had been undecided.

Guo Yan's behavior of delaying the decision naturally indirectly caused the dilemma of the army under the city and unable to attack for a long time.

But as a former colleague in the army, Zhang Ji was obviously aware of Guo Yan's various signs of actions and wanted to regret it.

Yes, Guo Yan wants to repent, he doesn't want to implement the agreement with Li Dao, break through Anyi, break the main army of Yan Xing, and he doesn't want to fulfill his promise to himself, avenge himself, and help him regain the land of Hongnong County.

Deep down in Guo Yan's heart, he should be like Wu Xi and others, thinking about driving away the plundered goods, livestock, women, and treasures to the land of the West River.

As for those bloody alliances, they all went to hell.

It's just that he turned around and didn't recognize people, and Guo Yan couldn't do this for the time being, after all, Li Wei's military strength was not damaged, and his uncle and nephew also attacked Hedong for Guo Yan's army, and they fought desperately.

Therefore, Guo Yan has gradually contracted and conserved his troops, and he is secretly waiting for a reason for withdrawing his troops, and it is estimated that in these two or three days, he will find an opportunity to lead the army back to Zuo Fengyi.

Zhang Ji saw it in his eyes and was worried.

Zhang Xiu risked his life to swim across the river to plot against the Shen Qiang people, joined the army with his sick body, and cooperated with Li Ru to break the Hedong Boat Division, relieving the worries of the army crossing the river and fighting.

What is it for, isn't it just to break through the east of the river and regain a foothold to shelter.

If this attack on Hedong is in vain and wastes this opportunity given by God, Zhang Jizhen doesn't know if he will still have a chance to break through the strong enemy and re-establish the portal with his physical condition.

Even if you don't think about your sick body now, you have to fight for your nephew Zhang Xiu.

Therefore, in the past few days under the city of Dunbing, Zhang Ji has been thinking hard about the good strategy of breaking through Anyi.

It wasn't until he had just learned from a prisoner of Hedong County that there was a flaw in the city defense of Anyi City.

The last time Anyi was breached was when Yan Xing led his army to return to Hedong.

At that time, Yan Xing's two-way army went south and east, besieged the city to send reinforcements, and after pulling out the reinforcements on the periphery of Anyi, he led the army to surround the city on all sides, and attacked the city in a hundred ways, and it took less than a day to break through the Anyi city held by Wei Gu and others.

At that time, in addition to the west and south walls of the main attack, there were also east city walls that were first broken by the soldiers and horses under Yan Xing's command.

In the past few days, Guo Yan's army has been attacking the west and south city walls, but because the west and south city walls are strong and well-armed, the siege army has not made significant progress for a long time.

From the captive's mouth, Zhang Ji was pleasantly surprised to learn that the terrain of the east city wall is actually slightly shorter than the west and south city walls, and when the city guards were strengthening the city defense, they only repaired the breached city gate and collapsed city wall, and did not build a complete urn city in the east.

After learning of this inside story, Zhang Ji was pondering how to persuade Guo Yan to feint to attack the west and south city walls, drag most of the troops in the city, and then lead the army to make a detour to raid the east city wall, so as to achieve the goal of avoiding the real and attacking the false and attacking Anyi.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the specific situation of the city fortifications on the eastern city wall was true, Zhang Ji deliberately took a team of cavalry and prisoners, patted his horse out of the camp, and made a detour to the east of the city.

Out of the camp gate, Zhang Ji saw at a glance the prisoner Zheng Duo, whose lower body was buried in the soil outside the city, and many arrows were inserted crookedly on his body.

The short-tempered Guo Yan couldn't attack Anyi for a long time, so he naturally jumped like thunder and was furious. Taking advantage of the opportunity to persuade him to surrender, Zheng Duo, who was close to the city wall to boost morale, unfortunately became a live target for Guo Yan to vent his anger, and was shot alive by Guo Yan in the open space outside the city.

When Zheng Duo was shot, Guo Yan also deliberately attracted the attention of the guards at the head of the city, trying to provoke and lure the defenders of the city out of the city to fight, but unfortunately although the guards at the head of the city were indignant, they still didn't have a hot mind and rushed out of the city.

Guo Yan's plan to lure the enemy failed, he was unhappy, and he didn't bother to deal with Zheng Duo's corpse, so he directly asked the soldiers to bury him in the soil and let the sun dry, in order to continue to stimulate the emotions of the guards at the head of the city.

"If what you say is not true, know what will happen!"

Zhang Ji temporarily made up his mind, stretched out his hand and pointed to Zheng Duo's corpse, looked at the prisoners of Hedong County who had been loosened and were also riding on horseback, and said sternly.

The captive still cowered on horseback, and was so frightened by Zhang Ji that his face turned pale, and he kept nodding his head in agreement as if he were pounding garlic.

Seeing his performance, Zhang Ji thought that a Hedong pawn would not dare to deceive himself, and his eyes turned to the city head of Anyi again.

The garrison at the head of Anyi City is still tight, and from time to time you can see soldiers with armor and halberds patrolling and walking on the city wall, and under the city wall are dead corpses pillowing and wreckage everywhere, and some of the city walls are still emitting black smoke from ashes.

Zhang Ji's cavalry let go of their horses and made a detour to the east along the many moats that had been filled, without attracting much attention from the guards at the head of the city.

These days, the guards at the head of the city have seen more large formations, and they are no longer as fuss about these scattered light cavalry in Guo Yan's army as they were when they first came to the city, as long as they are not a large number of foot soldiers carrying ladders to attack the city, and not many guards will pay attention to other small movements of the enemy army outside the city.