The fourth day of the Battle of Echeng.

After the first day of siege, Jiangdong rested for two days, and finally launched another attack on Exian.

The target of this attack was not the county seat of Exian County, but a camp in the northeast corner of Exian County, where Wei Yan was stationed in order to respond to the defense of Echeng.

Of course, Wei Yan knew that there would be such a day, so he ordered his soldiers early to be ready for battle.

But at this moment, Wei Yan didn't know the bottom of his heart.

First, the group of soldiers under him was not the white soldiers he was accustomed to commanding, but a group of Jiangxia sailors who were a little better than the rabble.

Second, Wei Yan really doubted that Zhang Xi would echo him from afar, and even go out of the city to rescue him when necessary.

Who made Wei Yan think that he and Zhang Xi were seriously incompatible.

The battle to defend the city has always been like this, defending part of the city wall and going out to respond to part of it.

And under Zhang Xi, the only general with enough experience in leading troops is he Wei Yan, so sending Wei Yan out of the city to respond is a very correct military order, even Wei Yan himself can't say anything.

But the most important thing in the battle to defend the city is to work together, to go out to respond to the timely assistance of the city defenders, to help burn the city defense equipment, and once the soldiers who go out to respond to the siege, the defenders must also go out in time to respond, even if the siege can not be lifted, but also to respond to the withdrawal of the army to the city.

On the first day of defending the city, Wei Yan had already done what he should do, and now, Wei Yan had some doubts about whether Zhang Xi would do what he should do.

One, it's true that the relationship between the two people is quite poor, and they basically don't talk when they have nothing to do.

On the other hand, Wei Yan was very skeptical, even if Zhang Xi had the heart to accept him, he would be able to get out of the city.

Wei Yan was very skeptical of Zhang Xi's military performance.

On the first day of defending the city, he had to help the people who burned the chariots, and it was difficult to doubt how long he would be able to hold the city.

Is there a way for such a commander to break through the Jiangdong Army's containment and come to meet him, Wei Yan has a big question mark in his heart.

But now Wei Yan can't think about it so much, because he has already seen the main force of the Jiangdong Army moving in his direction, and there are also Shuai Qi who are coming with the army.

It was quite far away, and of course Wei Yan couldn't see Zhou Yu's appearance clearly, but the big word "Zhou" on the handsome flag told Wei Yan that this was the commander of the Jiangdong Army who personally came out to trouble him.

Estimating the distance, and thinking about the army he was leading now, Wei Yan sighed again.

If he led the White Soldiers, the five hundred White Soldiers, Wei Yan really dared to learn from the idol Guan Erye, and take the risk to try to impact Zhou Yu's main formation.

If Zhou Yu is beheaded in battle, the Jiangdong Army will naturally retreat, not to mention, and he will inevitably become famous all over the world.

Really, he Wei Yan has never lacked such an adventurous spirit.

But unfortunately, he led the Jiangxia Naval Army.

These Jiangxia sailors. Really, Wei Yan couldn't say anything.

Don't think about what you have or don't have, arrange for soldiers to hold the walled city and wait for help.

In the face of the containment army led by Lu Meng for the first time, Wei Yan dared to show his troops outside and attack the west.

But this kind of thing can only be done once, even the stupid commander can't fall twice in a row in a pit, not to mention that Wei Yan has also heard of Zhou Yu's fame, obviously not that kind of stupid and mediocre.

So Wei Yan didn't play any tricks this time, he just kept the camp strictly.

When Zhou Yu arrived at Wei Yan's camp, he did not rush to attack, but first observed Wei Yan's camp layout.

I have to admit that this nameless guard in front of him is really a rare general.

The camp was laid out quite reasonably, and there were no obvious holes in the defense on all sides. As for the real combat capability, then you have to try it to find out.

Zhou Yu immediately ordered Lu Meng to carry out the first tentative attack.

And this temptation made Zhou Yu see something.

Wei Yan's soldiers are from the Jingzhou Navy in the end, and there is basically no problem with archery when defending the camp, they are decent and decent.

But when the Jiangdong Army approached the camp and needed to fight in close quarters, the weakness of the Jingzhou Army was exposed.

Lack of hand-to-hand combat ability, no formation, separate battles.

Several times, it was Wei Yan who personally led the soldiers to rescue and repelled the attack of the Jiangdong Army, and Wei Yan was often exhausted from running around.

Zhou Yu saw the weakness of the camp, but Zhou Yu didn't have any good solutions.

The reason is very simple, Wei Yan's soldiers lack hand-to-hand combat ability, and there is no formation to cooperate with the Jiangdong Army.

Most of the Jiangdong Army is also from the navy, so it is no problem for them to operate the boat and set up the formation, but once they have hand-to-hand combat on the river, limited by the size of the ship, they basically fight separately and do not cooperate.

A stronger elite may not be bad in hand-to-hand combat, but the hand-to-hand combat ability of most sailors is really not good, after all, the fighting on the ship is more about ingenuity than real desperateness.

Therefore, Zhou Yu could only watch Wei Yan run around everywhere, repelling the attacks of the Jiangdong Army again and again, knowing where the opponent's weakness was, but Zhou Yu still had no way to take this camp.

Zhou Yu looked at such a battle scene where rookies pecked each other, and secretly swore in his heart that after returning to Jiangdong this time, he must find a way to practice the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Jiangdong Army. Otherwise, how will you conquer the city in the future?

As for Wei Yan, with the help of Wei Yan, after repelling the attacks of the Jiangdong Army several times in a row, the Jiangxia Navy in the camp slowly gained confidence.

It turned out that the Jiangdong Army, which was so powerful on the water, went ashore, and everyone was half a catty, eight or two!

If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people on the other side, the Jiangxia Navy would feel that they would not be able to fight back against a wave of Jiangdong Army.

But Wei Yan was not so optimistic, he began to seriously consider whether to let go of wolf smoke and ask for help from Echeng.

Indeed, he repelled the attacks of the Jiangdong Army in a row, and still held the camp.

But Wei Yan knew in his heart that the gap between the forces of the two sides was too big, and the Jiangdong Army was enough to consume itself.

Before the start of the war, there were more than 800 soldiers, but now after a morning of defense, more than 50 people have been reduced. If this is held like this, for three days at most, there will be a mutiny on his side, and then the sergeant will surrender to the Jiangdong Army.

After more than one-third of the casualties of the soldiers of this year, there were very few who did not mutinied.

And Zhang Xi, who was standing on the top of the city and watching, was also very nervous at this time.

The city walls are high, and the overall situation will be more obvious. Now the main force of the Jiangdong Army is almost attacking around Wei Yan's camp, and there are thousands of people outside the city gates in the west and south.

Zhang Xi is anxious, let Wei Yan defend it like this, Wei Yan will not be able to hold it for a long time.

It is necessary to go out of the city to rescue.

But here's the problem. How to rescue.

Rescue is also a technical job, not just relying on courage to kill all the way.

If it was replaced by Zhang Fei to lead the army, and his subordinates were the 1,000 soldiers who practiced the Mandarin Duck Formation, maybe they would really be able to kill through it. But the general of Zhang Xi's current army is Kou Feng, and the sergeant is a thousand sailors left by Chen.

It's too late for this thing to learn the Mandarin Duck Array.

Therefore, it is obviously not possible to rush hard, and a way must be found.

As early as when arranging for Wei Yan to go out of the city to garrison, Zhang Xi thought of a way to respond to Wei Yan, otherwise he would not have let Wei Yan be stationed in the southeast corner of Echeng.

Outside the east gate of Echeng, there is a water, and 500 meters ahead is the tidal flat along the river, which is not suitable for camping and attacking the city, so it is impossible for the Jiangdong army to choose this place to attack.

Therefore, Zhang Xi's original plan was that once the Jiangdong army attacked Wei Yan urgently, Zhang Xi would send troops to fight out of the East City Gate and take Wei Yan back to the city through the East City Gate.

But the original Zhang Xi's plan did not include the situation that Zhou Yu personally led the main army to besiege Wei Yan.

After all, in Zhang Xi's mind, Wei Yan is a camp for response, and Zhou Yu's main energy should be to siege the city, at most arrange some containment troops to contain Wei Yan, so that if Wei Yan can't hold it, it will be enough to highlight the encirclement and retreat into the city.

Who knew that Wei Yan was so fierce, facing an opponent twice as large as himself, he actually dared to divide his troops to ambush, and he really killed the Jiangdong containment troops.

It's okay now, Zhou Yu's army has been provoked, and the one that is surrounded is called a tight one.

What can I do with this thing, Zhang Xi really doesn't have any good way.

But Wei Yan can't help it, even if he doesn't agree, but the consequences of not saving his allies are very serious.

If he doesn't save Wei Yan today, then there will definitely be a day when others won't save him in the future. Besides, Wei Yan, the future general of the expedition to the north, is too guarded in Hanzhong, and he can't fold here.

Zhang Xi circled back and forth on the city wall, thought for a long time, and finally came up with a way to deal with Wei Yan.

Although this method is a bit risky, there is no way but to try.

Zhang Xi hurriedly called Kou Feng and whispered to him.

(End of chapter)