Porphylla –

When the loss report was submitted, Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he spurted blood on the spot, and fell headlong, and a group of big leaders hurriedly carried people to the simple marching bed.

The two large battalions in the southeast were attacked, and all the grain and grass stored in the rear camp in the eastern battalion were burned, and a large number of military materials such as long ladders, siege vehicles, arrows, shields, and clothing were burned, and most of the horses, mules, horses, horses, and cattle were lost, and nearly 3,500 people were killed or wounded, and only a few were burned to death or blown up, and most of them were trampled to death by panic.

Liu Wenxiu, the commander of the southern camp, because of his proper command and timely rescue, snatched back a small half of the military supplies, and the soldiers suffered more than 1,700 casualties, which was also due to the panic caused by the stampede.

Zhang Xianzhong's anger is not the loss of troops, but food and ordnance, what the people's army lacks most is food, half of it is burned at once, can he not vomit blood in anger? As for the lost soldiers, they are all cannon fodder for him, they are numbers, he is not afraid of how much he loses, and he can also save the consumption of food. The siege will be carried out early tomorrow morning, and as a result, the heavy siege equipment will be burned, what is the situation now? The people's army is in danger of being surrounded on all sides, and if they don't conquer Shanyin County as soon as possible and defeat Gao Jie's independent battalion of the Royal Guards, they will only be in danger of being dumpled and the whole army will be wiped out.

Although the two in the northwest were not attacked, the soldiers of the whole battalion were strictly guarded to prevent being attacked, and everyone was completely sleepy, trembling, and they were relieved until dawn, but they were all so sleepy that their eyelids were heavy, especially those soldiers who were attacking the city during the day, they were shaking when they walked, and they fell directly into the tent in a serious way, and the sound shook the sky, and the whip could not wake up.

Zhang Xianzhong, who looked a little wilted, saw that the big leaders under his command were all holding dark circles under their eyes, and their faces were full of fatigue, so he had no choice but to rest for a morning and attack the city in the afternoon, but those logistics soldiers were miserable, they had to cut down trees, and rush to build long ladders, siege vehicles and other siege heavy weapons to make up for last night's losses.

One hundred daredevils attacked the enemy camp at night, only five of them sprained their feet on the way to retreat, and withdrew to the city with the support of their companions, only 20 soldiers returned to the city, and the company commander Wei Shuangxi took 80 daredevils to take advantage of the chaos in the enemy camp to break through the camp and jump out of the encirclement.

Li Liancheng is extremely satisfied with this, this kid is clever in battle, has brains, and has a bright future.

Zhang's army is sleeping in a big sleep, in order to recover the physical strength of the loss, the same way, the soldiers and civilians defending the city have also won precious time, the soldiers hurry up to rest, the people are desperately strengthening the city fortifications, arrows, rolling stones and other equipment to carry the city to the city, there are talking and laughing, the atmosphere is not as tense and panic as yesterday, most people firmly believe that they can hold the city, until the reinforcements arrive.

In the western camp, in the tent, Zhang Xianzhong was sleeping in a daze, when he suddenly heard a dense gunfire from behind the camp, which frightened him so much that he jumped up from the marching bed, picked up the long sword placed on the pillow and rushed out, hissing and asking, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldiers guarding outside the tent looked at each other, and they didn't know what was going on?

"Hurry up and check it out for me!" Zhang Xianzhong shouted, he is now a little panicked, he was attacked by the Ming army last night and suffered heavy losses, and he was attacked again in broad daylight, and the joke was too big.

In addition to sleeping to death, most of the soldiers were awakened by the fierce gunfire, instinctively rushed out of the tent, the nightmare of last night's attack is still clearly imprinted in their minds, they don't want to be buried in the fire, burned to charcoal, the way to die is too terrifying.

Not long after, the soldiers ran back to report that it was the baggage auxiliary soldiers of the rear battalion who were attacked by the Ming army when they were cutting trees in the woods not far away, and they were killed and wounded, and the rest of the company fled back with a crawl.

Carefully inquired about the logistics auxiliaries who fled back, and confirmed that there were not many Ming troops attacked, quite two or three hundred people, Zhang Xianzhong was furious, it was understandable that the camp was attacked at night, and two or three hundred people dared to attack in the daytime? When Lao Tzu's army of 200,000 is ornamental? He immediately sent Sun Kewang to be ordered to lead 3,000 elite cavalry to besiege and kill the harassing Ming army. Another large group of infantry was sent into the forest to protect the logistics auxiliaries and cut down trees to build siege heavy weapons.

Sun Kewang had more than 3,000 elite cavalry, but when he attacked Shanyin County a few days ago, he lost nearly 1,000, although he made up the number of 3,000, but there were only more than 2,500 real elite veterans left, and the rest were all recruits who could barely know how to cavalry, and they were still far from qualified cavalry soldiers. However, the 3,000 cavalry is quite terrifying.

The logistics auxiliaries of the People's Army who attacked and felled trees in the woods to the west were 80 daredevils led by Wei Shuangxi, who shot and killed more than 40 logistical auxiliaries and quickly retreated.

When Sun Kewang arrived with 3,000 cavalry, except for more than 40 corpses that were already cold, and the long ladder that was thrown to the ground, the ghost did not find a single one.

War horses are useless in the dense forest, on the contrary, they are still cumbersome, Sun Kewang can only dismount while complaining, and take people into the woods to search, he is more and more convinced at this moment that Zhang Xianzhong is taking the opportunity to weaken his strength.

Most of Sun Kewang's subordinates are elite veterans, and soon found the traces left by Wei Shuangxi and others when they retreated, looking at the direction of retreating to the south, Sun Kewang ordered a thousand soldiers to pursue after him, and he went out of the forest, leading two thousand cavalry to gallop along the edge of the woods, rushing to the front to outflank, three thousand elites to deal with two or three hundred Ming soldiers, how to crush, he transferred his unhappiness with Zhang Xianzhong to Wei Shuangxi's death squad.

Under the protection of a large group of soldiers, those logistics auxiliaries trembled into the forest and began to cut down trees to build siege heavy weapons.

Sun Kewang's 1,000 elite veterans marched in a linear search formation in the dense forest, and the movement was quite large, and a small group of daredevils in charge of the palace found out and hurriedly reported that Wei Shuangxi had to speed up the evacuation, and at the same time ordered the team in charge of the palace to carefully clean up the traces left on the ground.

Wei Shuangxi led dozens of daredevils through the dense forest for a while, estimating that he was approaching the southern camp of Zhangjiajun, he suddenly ordered to turn around, retreat to the southwest, and sent a group to continue to lure the enemy forward, and then look for an opportunity to turn to converge.

The 1,000 militia that came after them were looking for the traces left on the ground, and they didn't find that Wei Shuangxi had turned around with them, and continued to track forward, chasing about half a mile or so, and found that the traces in front had disappeared, and the officer who led the team was entangled for a while before ordering to continue to chase forward.

Sun Kewang led 2,000 cavalry to gallop forward along the edge of the woods for more than ten miles, the woods in front of him gradually thinned out, and then ten miles ahead was the Nanda Battalion, where he planned to intercept and outflank Wei Shuangxi's death squad.

Behind a small dirt slope, Tan Biao, the commander of the second battalion of the Royal Guards Independent Battalion, was lying on the grass, observing with a monocular, and saw Sun Kewang leading the cavalry to rumble from a distance, and hurriedly gestured backwards.

At the moment when the sky was gray and about to be brightened, he led the soldiers of the second battalion to arrive, and found that the four city gates were trapped by Zhang's army, so he led the team to come here to rest, looking for an opportunity to move, never thought that Sun Kewang led two thousand cavalry to gallop over here, it was too late to dodge, and could only line up to fight.