The 30,000 troops of the Xiliang Army surrounded Zhongmu County, fighting from day to night, but still did not take the county. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Guo Yan was naturally very dissatisfied with this result, and originally decided to attack all night, but the deputy generals Niu Fu and Zhang Ji persuaded him that the army had been attacking for a day, and he was already very tired at this time, and the army was originally cavalry, not good at attacking the city, since it could not be taken during the day, then withdraw the troops for the time being, go back to reorganize the army, build siege equipment, and fight again tomorrow.

Although Guo Yan is short-tempered, he doesn't want to send his army to death in vain, and at the moment, Zhu Jun has not escaped, as long as Zhongmu City is surrounded, he will not escape.

At this time, Zhu Jun's 3,000 soldiers have been killed and wounded, and the morale of the soldiers has reached the verge of collapse, these people are residents near Luoyang, because they want not to starve, so they joined the army, their training time is not long, the sense of battle is not strong, and the combat effectiveness is also very weak, under the siege of 30,000 horses and horses of the Xiliang Army, the reason why Zhu Jun's 3,000 troops were able to hold out for most of the day was mainly due to the city wall of Zhongmu County.

A few years ago, in order to prevent the Yellow Turban Army from invading the territory, the city wall of Zhongmu County was rebuilt under the auspices of Chen Gong, and the city wall was heightened and reinforced, although it was only two zhang and five high, it was not as good as a strong city like Luoyang Chang'an, but it was also very good in the general county seat.

The Xiliang army is all cavalry, hurriedly put into the battle, there is no siege equipment in their hands, and the cavalry have some lap legs, which makes them have a big problem when climbing the siege ladder, Zhongmu County is small, but because it is small, so Zhu Jun's three thousand people can also hold the four city walls, the Xiliang army attacked for a day, killed and wounded hundreds of people, and failed to those city walls, but after all, they are fierce soldiers, Zhu Jun's army also occupies the terrain advantage with leisure and work, but still killed and injured nearly 1,000 people, The city was littered with corpses and soldiers' morale and was on the verge of collapse.

Zhu Jun was patrolling the city at this time, he was over fifty years old, but he was still on the front line to kill the enemy, if it weren't for his first step, his 3,000 people would have collapsed long ago.

Zhu Jun looked at the Xiliang Army camp that stretched for miles outside the city, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling a lot of pressure in his heart.

Zhu Jun has fought for decades in his life, and he has seen large and small scenes, but this time he feels that he really has no chance, although the Xiliang army is not good at attacking the city, but after all, the disparity in strength is huge, and the other party is all cavalry, which makes it impossible for him to lead the army to break through, not to mention that there are nearly 10,000 people in the city, how can he Zhu Jun leave these people behind.

At three o'clock in the middle of the night, the camp of the Xiliang Army was already very quiet, except for the soldiers patrolling the camp and the sentries standing guard and patrolling outside, everyone else had fallen asleep, at this moment, there was a sudden earth-shattering shouting outside the camp, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army saw countless soldiers with torches rushing towards them, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly rang the alarm bell, and in an instant, the alarm bell in the camp of the Xiliang Army rang into one.

Guo Yan was awakened in his sleep, and he didn't care about wearing clothes and armor, so he ran out with his upper body on.

He caught a panicked soldier and asked aloud, "What the hell is going on, why are you so alarmed!" ”

The soldier trembled with fright, and spoke sharply: "General, the enemy army has come to rob the camp, and there are many enemy troops outside, and they are about to attack it!" ”

Guo Yan saw that he was frightened, kicked him to the ground, there were already soldiers who brought war horses for him, Guo Yan turned over on his horse, looked around, where are the enemy soldiers who robbed the camp, there is not even a ghost shadow outside the camp, but the west camp was set on fire for a while, and now there is a raging fire in the camp.

After all, Guo Yan had rich combat experience, and instantly understood that this was the enemy's tired strategy, so he immediately ordered to extinguish the fire in the battalion, and doubled the posts outside the battalion, and then ambushed a cavalry unit in the battalion, and if the enemy attacked again, he would immediately launch a counterattack.

After Guo Yan finished arranging, he went to sleep again, but when he just fell asleep, there was a shout outside, and there was the sound of dozens of war drums, Guo Yan was woken up at once, and the cavalry unit he had arranged before immediately chased out.

It's just that it didn't take long for them to retreat again, and the soldiers were all wounded, it seemed that they had been ambushed, Guo Yan sent someone to ask, only to know that the other party had already taken precautions, and specially laid a lot of thistles outside the camp, and not long after the cavalry of the Xiliang Army rushed out, the war horses stepped on these thistles, and the soldiers did not expect that the other party would actually do this in front of their camp, so they were caught off guard and broke hundreds of war horses, And after the war horse fell, the road of the cavalry behind them was blocked, so that they had to slow down and avoid, so as not to trample on their companions, and just when they were huddled together, they suddenly flew out of nowhere, and shot nearly a hundred soldiers at once, Xiliang Army was surprised, they didn't know where there was thistle terrestris and where there was not, so they didn't dare to continue to advance, so they could only withdraw to the camp.

After Guo Yan listened to it, he paid attention to it, the enemy calculated him everywhere, and every step was in front of him, which made him lose his mind for a while, since the other party only dared to hide in the dark and raid, it means that the number of the other party is not much, and it is definitely impossible to attack his own camp if the number is not much, so Guo Yan asked the army to be vigilant, and doubled the number of sentinels, as long as they survive this night, they will be able to solve the opponent tomorrow.

After a night of trembling, he got up the next morning, only to see that all the soldiers of the Xiliang Army were staring at a pair of dark circles one by one, and they all seemed to be in low spirits, Guo Yan himself was no exception, but he didn't care about this, and immediately sent soldiers to investigate the situation of the enemy army, the enemy army that attacked them last night was definitely not the soldiers in Zhongmu City, they were all fighting all day like the Xiliang army, and they didn't have so good energy to attack them.

Thinking about it like this, Guo Yan concluded that it must be Zhu Jun's reinforcements arriving, but who else in the vicinity would dare to provoke their 30,000 troops? Guo Yan really couldn't think of it for a while, but since the enemy's reinforcements had arrived, it was even more necessary to hurry up the time to take Zhongmu, so Guo Yan immediately ordered that the whole army should go to battle and be sure to take Zhongmu City before lunch.

The Xiliang army quickly formed several phalanxes, pushing nearly a hundred engineering equipment towards Zhongmu City step by step, and for a while, a powerful murderous aura rushed straight ahead.