With the approach of Zhang Miao's Chinese army, the weather in Yu County also seems to be improving, but this is good news for Gao Shun, in a sense, this battle is also Gao Shun's heaviest operation, just like the feeling he is now lurking in this barren mountain full of dense forests, it is a dull sense of depression, Gao Shun has received news from the scouts under his command, Zhang Miao's Chinese army will pass here at about noon, and Gao Shun immediately decided to take advantage of the situation, So he immediately passed on his decision back to the Yuxian camp and then took action.

At this time, Zhang Miao's Chinese army was about to arrive in Yu County in a hurry because of the stop rain and Zhang Miao's urging, but Zhang Miao couldn't be happy when he arrived here, and he didn't even be able to touch the shadow of Xu Ji's troops along the way, and even so, his strength against Xu Ji was still unknown, Zhang Miao even admired his young opponent, Xu Ji used his flexibility and garrison advantages to contain the speed of his troops through constant harassment, Then, by building outside the city, it was probably at the same angle as Yuxian, and these arrangements and arrangements were enough to show the extraordinary ability of Xu Ji.

But the more this is the case, the stronger his determination to get rid of Xu Ji, Xu Ji is like a double-edged sword to him, if used well, it is a sharp weapon to help him Zhang Miao be promoted, but once it is not used well, it will hurt himself. In order to avoid risks, Zhang Miao did not dare to make mistakes.

With the arrival of noon, Zhang Miao's Chinese army also stopped temporarily, although it was only spring, the sun in the middle of the day was already quite scorching, and they had to bury the pot to make rice, so although Zhang Miao was anxious, he still stopped, and just when they began to bury the pot to make rice. A cannon shot interrupted the movement of their hands.

With this horn came a foot soldier from the mountains and forests not far away, of course, if this was an ordinary foot soldier, Zhang Miao would probably be regarded as a laughing stock. Because the number of this foot soldier is so small. And the reason why Zhang Miao didn't have it was that this infancier was completely different from the infantrymen he knew, these guys were all monsters wearing heavy iron armor. Although their charge speed was not fast, it was steady and terrifying, there was no shouting of killing, no superfluous movements, and they walked straight towards Zhang Miao's Chinese army in unison. And after Zhang Miao issued the order to release the arrows, he immediately saw the power of the foot soldier on the opposite side, and all the arrows were directly bounced off by the iron armor.

As the other party approached, Zhang Miao realized that the opponent's infantry was a battle formation of five people, equipped with two swords and shields, two spears, and a halberd. The opponent is clearly adept at this kind of coordination, with the sword and shield man responsible for fending off the approaching enemy, the spear for assassination, and the halberd as support. The other party's advance was not fast, but it was slow and resolute, Zhang Miao only felt a deep sense of fear in these silent steel monsters, this is a group of monsters who will not cry out for pain or tears at all, and the mask armor also covers the face, these foot soldiers are like demons crawling out of the abyss, wantonly harvesting the lives of every Zhang Miao's corporal.

As these small five-person battle formations wandered and advanced. Gao Shun's infantry has been mixed with Zhang Miao's Chinese army, almost like dogs' teeth, if you look down from above, you can find that Gao Shun has no reservations at all to throw all the infantry under his command into the battlefield. And he himself is no exception.

Zhang Miao felt frightened, in just half a pillar of incense, the opponent's attack was so fierce that it was almost impossible to resist, and this strange over-the-top foot soldier really didn't seem to be tired. This made Zhang Miao despair. His original plan was to drag down these heavily armored foot soldiers, after all, he had all the light armor under his command. The burden on the other side is obviously heavier, and in principle, Zhang Miao's approach is absolutely correct. It's just that Zhang Miao miscalculated one thing, that is, his subordinates were defeated first, and he didn't even dare to drag the other party to show his tiredness, and Zhang Miao didn't dare to fight, and such a wanton attack on the contrary showed that there must be support or an ambush behind him, and he definitely didn't dare to take risks easily at this time, and this place was really not too far from Xu Ji's Yuxian camp, and no one dared to say whether Xu Ji had sent support now.

In view of the fact that his Chinese army has lost its sharpness and low morale, Zhang Miao had no choice but to retreat ten miles back to camp, and the first troops naturally sent people to recall, Zhang Miao has been deeply aware of the mistakes he made, he greatly underestimated the opponent's ability, even if he is only sixteen years old, he already has such a scheming city, and what is even more terrifying is the opponent's judgment of the battlefield situation and his keen sense of smell, which makes Zhang Miao faintly uneasy, this opponent is obviously different from those he has encountered in the past, this is an opponent who is really likely to defeat himself, Zhang Miao must use all his mind to deal with Xu Ji.

On the other hand, Gao Shun also retreated to the Yuxian battalion after the victory, which is also a helpless thing, the foot soldiers under his command are all wearing heavy armor, to say that Gao Shun will never be weaker than anyone in the positional battle, but when it comes to pursuit and mobility, he can only cry out in vain, but even so he has achieved the results that Xu Ji is very satisfied.

Through this series of weakenings, Xu Ji's strength at this time is actually faintly stronger than Zhang Miao, but the situation is not stable at this time, and these are not accurate, and the only thing that can determine this is the victory or defeat of the next battle. For Zhang Miao, it has reached the point where he can only win and cannot be defeated, the morale of the Chinese army is far lower than he expected, and Xu Ji's harassment along the way has also made them tired of it, and what is more troublesome is that Xu Ji's next move He still doesn't know what to do, Zhang Miao is already a little grass and trees, and Xu Ji has to be scared for a day if he doesn't move, which is completely different from his mood when he left Chenliu County.

In fact, Gao Shun was not satisfied with his own record, in his opinion, he should have dragged Zhang Miao, but he was not able to complete this task, which made Gao Shun a little ashamed of Xu Ji for giving him the name of the battalion soldier: trapping the camp.

Interestingly, the first creed set by Xu Ji was: "The will to fall into the camp is to die and not to live." However, these words were in line with Gao Shun's iron-blooded thoughts, so he immediately asked someone to write a creed that hung in his military tent as a constant reminder to himself. Of course, this is just an episode, Xu Ji's mind has been completely focused on his next arrangement, and his goal has been achieved, which is to hit Zhang Miao's morale. weakened Zhang Miao's strength, he almost did all of this perfectly. But there is still a problem, that is, these are not too big a blow to Zhang Miao. He still has enough strength to deal with Xu Ji, and although he makes the situation ignore Zhang Miao, it is just very uncomfortable for Zhang Miao, but if he really fights to break the net, Xu Ji still has no certainty of victory.

A head-on battle is still unavoidable, and his purpose in building a camp outside the city is to confront Zhang Miao head-on, but before that, Xu Ji still needs to weaken Zhang Miao's strength again, so he decided to take a risk, and that side is a stealing camp.

The only force under Xu Ji's command that can steal the camp is the cavalry army led by Chen Zhi, but the number of cavalry is really small, Xu Ji knows that Zhang Miao must be on guard, so he still needs to be cautious, but this is not a big deal. That night, Chen Zhi and Le Jin set off with the cavalry battalion and the personal guard battalion respectively.

The place where Zhang Miao camped was about forty miles away from Xu Ji's camp, and Chen Zhi's cavalry stopped ten miles outside Zhang Miao's camp, only the guard battalion led by Le Jin continued to advance, at this time the sky had darkened, and Zhang Miao's soldiers who had experienced a whole day of marching and fighting were already exhausted, and it was time to rest after making food at this time, but Le Jin had already led his troops to touch less than five miles outside the camp, and what surprised Le Jin was that although he was so close to the opponent's camp, he still did not find the enemy's scouts, but then he was relieved. I am afraid that this is the result of Zhang Miao's contraction, after all, this is Xu Ji's territory, Zhang Miao has no need to send scouts to death, but this also gives Lejin great convenience. When night fell, Le Jin immediately lit a fire and beat drums to set foot in the camp, which really made Zhang Miao's camp very nervous and on full alert, but there was no substantive attack. Zhang Miaofang's soldiers had no choice but to return to the camp, but Lejin kept repeating this. By the time of the third watch, the soldiers in Zhang Miao's camp had tossed back and forth no less than five times, which was no less than a devastating blow to them who were already exhausted. But Zhang Miao still didn't dare to go out of the camp, and no one knew whether Xu Ji had set up an ambush.

And now Xu Ji's plan is also very clear, people, the decisions he makes are almost not at a loss, if Zhang Miao shrinks into defense, then the other party will be exhausted through constant harassment, and once Zhang Miao orders to go out of the camp to sweep, then Chen Zhi's cavalry will serve the purpose of covering Lejin and retreat, if Zhang Miao does not pay attention to the harassment, he can turn to the camp at any time, which is a situation that is almost impossible to avoid for Zhang Miao, and Zhang Miao's choice is to ignore, He thinks that although Xu Ji has achieved a victory today, the soldiers under his command are also tired, and it is impossible for him to come to steal the camp again, so he just arranged for his soldiers to sleep with armor and ignored the harassment of Lejin.

So naturally, after the third watch, Le Jin stopped the harassment of the drums, and this also made Zhang Miao mistakenly think that his prediction was correct, and of course this is not the end, just when Zhang Miao made up his mind to rest, something happened that completely broke his expectations.

"Too... Satrap...... My lord, enemy attack! It wasn't until a small colonel rushed into Zhang Miao's big tent with a panicked face that Zhang Miao woke up from his sleep, and his first reaction when he heard this was that this guy was talking nonsense, but the scene outside the curtain blown by the wind told Zhang Miao that this was not a joke.

Zhang Miao was excited, stood up, ignored his single clothes, picked up the little school, and asked, "What's the matter?" There was already a cold tone in his tone. The little colonel also settled down a little at this time, and replied with a sigh of relief: "Just now there was the sound of drums outside the camp again, and we all thought it was another trick of the enemy, so we ignored it, but after a few breaths, a group of iron horsemen stepped into the camp......"

Zhang Miao let go of him without listening to him, at this time Zhang Miao was already a little panicked in his heart, Xu Ji's arrangement was once again beyond his expectations, this young man actually calmly arranged such a trap for him to jump after achieving quite a lot of results during the day, and he still fell into the trick, and what was worse was that the night was deep, he didn't know how many people the other party came, and the torches and drums outside the camp seemed to be a lot of people, which made Zhang Miao not know what to do for a while.

It's just that time waits for no one, Zhang Miao knows that the longer he hesitates, the greater his losses, and now he is completely in Xu Ji's rhythm, and the other party has occupied the dominance of this war. Thinking of this, Zhang Miao immediately made a decision: "You go and give the order, and then retreat ten miles!" ”

You can't help but return. Zhang Miao knew very well that the result of not retreating was that he would face Xu Ji's possible continuous support, and now at this moment, he couldn't judge the number of the other party. However, judging from the combat effectiveness of the other party, the elite level of this army is only slightly inferior to the foot soldier he encountered yesterday, but now this army is even more terrifying, the reason is very simple, the other party is a cavalry army.

Zhang Miao was very grateful for the rain a few days ago, and the wood used to set up the camp was difficult to ignite, which made the situation not so difficult to control, and the commander of the other party was also very knowledgeable, he did not plan to burn the camp at all but only wanted to kill Zhang Miao's soldiers, and in less than half a pillar of incense they rushed into the camp, it had already run over Zhang Miao's front army like a torrent. The intensity and speed of this assault were too astonishing, although the biggest reason was that Zhang Miao's corporal was not ready for battle at all. But it's already a good one.

And Zhang Miao's side of the army was a little calmer, and the other party immediately withdrew, Zhang Miao was still preparing to pursue a period of time, when there was only the sound of torches and drums, and a foot soldier suddenly appeared outside the camp, which immediately dispelled Zhang Miao's idea of pursuing, Xu Ji obviously expected Zhang Miao's reaction, and the strategy of mixing fiction and reality also successfully played Zhang Miao. And after Chen Zhi completely evacuated, Lejin also slowly retreated. Seeing that Zhang Miao, who had no advantage to take advantage of, he had to choose to retreat again, this place was too close to Xu Ji's camp for him, and it was too easy for the other party to steal the camp or support, and Zhang Miao also realized the serious consequences of not sending scouts. So this time he had a lot of scouts scattered along the way, and he really didn't want to face such a scene again.

After a night of turmoil, Zhang Miao was sad to find that he had lost about 500 men, and now he and Xu Ji were almost the same in number, and Zhang Miao had to remove the men he used to guard the grain road. In this way, when facing Xu Ji, Zhang Miao was actually at a disadvantage, and this is still aside from the quality of the soldiers, not to mention that the heavy armored infantry under Xu Ji that is not like what the world should have and the cavalry army that comes and goes like the wind are enough for him to have a headache. And Zhang Miao doesn't know if Xu Ji is still hiding his strength, and the current situation is already a little difficult to reverse.

Of course, it is bad news for Zhang Miao, and it is undoubtedly good news for Xu Ji. Chen Zhi and Le Jin's attack was very fruitful, which made Xu Ji very satisfied, and after last night's battle, Zhang Miao may not have the strength to attack today. This bought Xu Ji another day, although he was still fighting on this side, but on the other side, he had already asked Xun Yu to solve Zhang Miao, and this must take a lot of time, so Xu Ji actually didn't plan to end the battle in a hurry, at least he would delay until Xun Yu was sure to solve Zhang Miao before ending the war, otherwise Xu Ji would have to face the reproach from the imperial court and the attack of Shizi Qingliu even if he won.

And these Zhang Miao naturally didn't expect that his biggest problem now has changed from defeating Xu Ji like this to how to minimize his losses, of course, the losses of the withdrawal and merger will not be too much at this time, but Zhang Miao is obviously not willing to fail so much, and more importantly, he put on such an attitude but returned to Chenliu County without doing anything, then his Zhang Miao's prestige is only afraid that it will be swept away.

Of course, Xu Ji will not forget the famous saying "take advantage of your illness to kill you", the next day when the sun was born, he sent Xu Qian to lead his troops to fight outside Zhang Miao's camp, Zhang Miao of course is hanging up the war card, and now the soldiers under Zhang Miao's command are not only tired but also morale is worried, and the battle at this time is undoubtedly asking for hardship. Zhang Miao is not stupid to that extent, but he also knows that he can't be like this all the time, otherwise his morale will only be even lower, and at that time, as long as Xu Ji cuts off his own grain without doing anything, his subordinates will rebel by themselves, but how to deal with Xu Ji, Zhang Miao is now a little at a loss.

Zhang Miao is still distressed here, and Xu Ji's side is also not very good, although he has achieved quite dazzling results in a row, Xu Ji's own sacrifice is also great, Gao Shun's trap camp has lost nearly half, this is the heaviest casualty of this battalion under Gao Shun. And the cavalry under Chen Zhi's jurisdiction looked perfect last night's camp, but it also lost more than 80 horses, this loss is even greater, this is the loss of people and horses, the cavalry is difficult to train, and the cost of raising horses is not small, so although the number of people lost is not enough to break the muscles and bones, it has already made Xu Ji extremely painful, fortunately, with the supplement of Xiangyi, Xu Ji's loss can still be accepted. And what makes Xu Ji's heart hurt the most is the loss of his own guard battalion, these soldiers are his personal guards, and the battle losses of the guard battalion are far greater than those of the other departments, the soldiers in the guard battalion are all loyal and hardcore, Xu Ji's order is even more executed, and because of this, the loss is extremely heavy, it was originally a personal guard battalion of nearly 1,000 people, and now there are less than 400 people left who still have combat ability.

And the next battle will continue, Xu Ji can't help but be a little anxious, he doesn't have Zhang Miao's capital, he has to plan carefully, and Zhang Miao also dare not be careless. (To be continued......)

PS: Update, ask for support. The state has been bad for the past two days, forgive me