Time passes slowly in cold weather. In the blink of an eye, it has reached the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and the war on the Western Front, which has fallen into a stalemate, is still like the frozen Yellow River, calm as a mirror on the surface, and surging in the dark.

The Northern Army led by Lu Zhi slowed down the pace of attacking Lishi, hoping that the combined forces of Huangfu Song and Cao Sun would make progress in Lin County and Gaowolf. However, in the face of the Zhao army, which was harder than stone and colder than ice, it was not Lu Zhi's wishful thinking that would lead to results, nor was it that the combined forces of Huangfu Song and Cao Sun could grit their teeth and hit the city in one go.

As long as it is a siege battle, no matter how many times you dodge, you can't escape a never-ending ending. The besieging side tried its best to break through the city, but the defending side was unmoved and still held on. If you want to enter Lin County and Gao Wolf, then take the lives of your subordinates and fill in the city wall round after round!

Up to now, Huangfu Song has launched four ** attacks on Lin County, 50,000 imperial forest troops and forbidden troops, there are only more than 30,000 left, and if the battle continues, there is a danger that the whole army will be wiped out. According to Huangfu Song's visual observation and estimate, the number of casualties of the Xiongwu army defending the city head was 6,000, but the fighting will of the soldiers defending the city was still very strong, revealing that it was definitely the heart of death to fight to the last soldier. Moreover, with the attrition of the defenders, the remaining soldiers seemed to be growing in battle, becoming more and more brave and ferocious, and the battle loss ratio of the two sides was even more unfavorable to the side of the Royal Foresters.

Huang Fu Song's uncle Huang Fu Gui unfortunately died of a crossbow in the battle leading the siege, which made Huang Fu Song's heart extremely painful. What Huangfu Song didn't know was that there was also a general in the Xiongwu army defending the city who was unfortunately injured by a stray arrow, and after rescue was ineffective, he died heroically.

The general of the Xiongwu Army who sacrificed was Liu He, the military general who switched to Zhao Xing from Ding Yuan's account back then, and he was not conspicuous on weekdays, but he did his job honestly. At the critical moment, he led his heavily armored infantry to defend a battlement that was about to rout, and forced all the enemy troops who climbed up to the top of the city back.

It's a pity that one of the arrows in the rain of arrows shot from the city actually shot into the gap where Liu He's eyes were exposed on the armor that was covering his face. The arrow pierced Liu He's pupils and reached the inside of his skull, completely destroying Liu He's brain organs. Even if Hua Tuo was present, he could not be healed. Liu He's sacrifice did not make the Xiongwu soldiers afraid and retreat, on the contrary, it aroused the determination of the soldiers to stick to the end.

In fact, the specific casualty figure of the Xiongwu army stationed in Lin County was 5,000, which was 1,000 less than Huangfu Song's estimate. Of the 5,000 men, less than 2,000 were killed, more than 2,000 were seriously wounded, and 1,000 were lightly wounded. Such casualties are entirely due to Zhao Xing's unsparing efforts to improve and improve the protective equipment of the army under his command. In the era of cold weapons, sturdy steel armor and helmets could save the lives of many soldiers.

If Huangfu Song continues to consume with Li Jinwu, he will find that the further he goes, the stronger the recovery ability of the Xiongwu army, as if there are thousands of more soldiers out of thin air. When the Xiongwu Army is dead, how many Imperial Forest Army and Forbidden Army will be left that can stand at the head of Lin County? Perhaps Huangfu Song will not be able to wait for that day at all. Don't forget, many of the Yellow Turbans that moved from Shangjun in Lin County have not been activated at all. When there are really no soldiers to defend, Li Jinwu will not hesitate to recruit these former criminals and continue to fight with Huangfu Song to the end.

Huangfu Song's life was not easy, and Cao Cao, who attacked Gao Wolf, was just as sad as Sun Jian's life. After all, Cao Cao and Sun Jian led the Central Army, and their determination to attack Gao Wolf was not as resolute as Huangfu Song and Lu Zhi, so after each sent troops to attack Jia Xu once, they were very tacitly silent and no longer touched the big nail in front of them.

Under the Gao Wolf City, Sun Jian took the lead in the first ** attack, losing 4,000 soldiers and the brave general Zu Mao. Then Cao Cao stubbornly launched another ** attack, and the sunspot who had already lost Cao Hong did not dare to easily send generals to take the lead in attacking the city, and the result was even more unbearable than Sun Jian's Wu army, and he could not get close to the morale of the Gao Wolf City, after losing 3,000 Taishan soldiers, Lao Cao directly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and refused to send troops to attack Jia Xu again.

Subsequently, the military advisors of the Cao and Sun armies under the city racked their brains to use stratagems to deceive Gao Wolf's city gate. This is naturally ineffective, and whether the Cao Sun coalition army pretended to be the Zhao army from the rout of Lin County to deceive the pass, or pretended that Lin County and Lishi Ercheng had been broken to scare the city leaders, Jia Xu was not moved at all. Playing conspiracy and trickery with Jia Xu, even if Xun You, Cheng Yu, Xi Zhicai, Liu Ye, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Jin, Lu Su and other seven strategists add up, they will not achieve anything.

Jia Xu only needs to remember that the task assigned by Zhao Xing is to stick to the Gao wolf, and he doesn't care about anything else. As long as the Cao-Sun coalition army did not go to the city to fight, Jia Xu would sit on the city gate tower and set up a dragon gate formation with Wang He, Song Xian, and Hao Meng, the three deputy generals, which was also a rare leisure and elegance. Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who were so angry that they stared, had no way to take this old guy at all. If anyone is not convinced, they can bring their soldiers to learn the wooden rolling stones on the top of the city, not to mention the terrifying thunder and the terrifying bed crossbow.

In fact, the Western Route Coalition Army, which was besieging the city on three routes, has now fallen into a dilemma. Everyone can see that Zhao Xing has no intention of fighting to the death with the coalition forces, but the premise is that the coalition forces cannot cross the Yellow River, or even occupy any city in the territory of the West River. Not wanting to fight to the death and not being able to fight to the end, although it is only a word difference, are two completely different attitudes. The Zhenbei Army did not want to, but it was not impossible, and this point had been unmistakably passed to the coalition army from Zhao Xing, Li Jinwu, and Jia Xu's practice of each holding on to a lonely city.

After receiving the battle reports of the Huangfu Song and Cao Sun coalition forces one after another, Lu Zhi had already understood the current situation. At this point in the war, everyone lost the optimism and self-confidence they had at the beginning, and they were just waiting for a decent excuse to withdraw from the army. Wanting all the princes from all walks of life to build all their family resources in the state is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Lu Zhi thought about it and found that only the 10,000 cavalry led by Pang De and the 10,000 infantry led by Yan Yan had not performed on the battlefield.

Although Zhu Jun once hinted in the letter that Lu Zhi should be careful of Pang De's 10,000 horses, and he must not be reused. But Lu Zhi felt that at this time, he gave Pang De an order, just to see the true attitude of Captain Ma Teng. Even if Pang De took 10,000 cavalry to take refuge in Zhao Xing in Bingzhou, it would not have any effect on the whole situation; on the contrary, when the two sides were in a stalemate, if Pang De could use the high-speed penetration of the cavalry to raid along the area from Lishi to Pingzhou and then to Guyuan, it might be able to have the effect of the black tiger digging out the heart.

Therefore, Lu Zhi gave an order to Pang De, who was guarding the right flank of the coalition army on the West Road, asking Pang De to immediately break away from the large army and go to the Pingzhou belt to attack and harass the state, preferably under the city of Guyuan, which will bring great shock and panic to the people of the state.