Zhang Xi's plan is like this.

Let Kou Feng go out of the city first to attract attention.

The first and second time out of the city was to tease the enemy generals surrounding the south gate, and at the same time to make the enemy relax their vigilance, or simply provoke the other party.

The result was surprisingly good, Ling Tong was not only provoked, but also unexpectedly made way for Kou Feng's troops to break through.

Seriously, if it weren't for the fact that there were only five hundred people, but five thousand people, Kou Feng would not have attacked Ling Tong's own formation at all, but would have directly killed Zhou Yu's rear army and planned to defeat the enemy with Wei Yan.

But unfortunately, Kou Feng only had five hundred people, so he could only act honestly according to Zhang Xi's plan.

First of all, it is necessary to disrupt Ling Tong's formation, otherwise it will not attract Zhou Yu's attention.

And the best way to disrupt Ling Tong's formation is to impact Ling Tong's own formation.

Of course, the danger of doing so is very high, and the success rate is also very low, so Zhang Xi, just in case, handed over all his five Shi guards to Kou Feng and let him use them as sharp knives.

It was these fifty people, relying on the cooperation of the Mandarin Duck Formation, that easily broke through the defense of Ling Tong's personal soldiers, forced Ling Tong's general banner back, and successfully created chaos in Ling Tong's army.

As soon as Ling Tong's army was in chaos, Kou Feng immediately killed Zhou Yu's rear army.

As soon as Ling Tongjun was in chaos, Zhou Yu would definitely notice it, and he would definitely not let it go.

But Zhou Yu definitely couldn't become flustered because of this matter, let alone give up attacking Wei Yan's camp, so his biggest possibility of dealing with it was to let the rear army change formations to meet the enemy.

After all, Zhou Yu had a large number of people, and it didn't take more than 10,000 people to attack a camp, and the rest of the people were basically encircled arrays arranged to prevent Wei Yan from breaking through.

Zhang Xi's headache is also these encirclement arrays, with the strength of Echeng, it is indeed very difficult to break through these encirclement arrays and respond to Wei Yan.

But now because of Kou Feng's assault, Gan Ning adjusted the formation of the rear army, gathered the soldiers and prepared to attack Kou Feng, which made a gap in this encirclement array.

At this time, Zhang Xi personally led 300 people to march along the tidal flats of the Yangtze River, cut into this gap, and at the same time lit wolf smoke to let Wei Yan break through to the east gate of Echeng.

As soon as Wei Yan saw the wolf smoke burning on the city wall, he immediately began to organize the breakthrough manpower, and it only took a stick of incense to organize his team for a long time, and then left a team of people to break off, and he took the lead and rushed to the east gate.

Of course, Zhou Yu also saw the wolf smoke at the head of the city, but Zhou Yu subconsciously thought that this was an order issued by the city to the defenders of the camp to break through in the direction of Kou Feng's reinforcements, so Zhou Yu strengthened the defense of Kou Feng in that direction, but found that Wei Yan's breakthrough direction was not the south gate of Echeng, but the east gate of Echeng.

With such a delay, it was a little too late for Zhou Yu to adjust the deployment of troops.

Wei Yan is also brave and deserves to be the top celebrity of this era.

He himself led the troops in front, personally opened the way, and led the crowd out of the encirclement.

After converging Zhang Xi's team of 300 people, Wei Yan was not enough, and asked Zhang Xi to lead the soldiers who escaped from the camp to return to the city first, and he took the 300 people brought by Zhang Xi to reflexively kill the enemy again, and received the previously arranged broken soldiers, and then he personally broke the rear, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to Echeng under the cover of crossbows and bows and arrows on the city wall.

As for Kou Feng, he led people along the city wall along the way, and under the cover of the bed crossbows and archers on the city wall, he also returned to the south gate safely.

This rescue was actually very dangerous, but also quite lucky.

The first is whether Kou Feng can successfully repel Ling Tong and attract Zhou Yu's attention.

If Kou Feng can't do this, everything will be out of the question.

The second is whether Wei Yan can seize the gap in Zhou Yujun's mobilization of troops and kill him from the encirclement, if he can't kill it, then even if Zhang Xi goes to respond, 300 people will not be enough for the army to plug the teeth.

Third, this is the first time Zhang Xi has personally led his troops out of the city to fight, if he is not careful, his life will be gone.

But fortunately, this time God is on Zhang Xi's side.

Kou Feng not only succeeded in provoking Ling Tong, but even Ling Tong "cooperated" to take the initiative to give way to Kou Feng's attack, which made Kou Feng's assault on Ling Tong's own formation much easier.

After that, when Gan Ning transferred the sergeants and soldiers to gather in formation, they actually released the encirclement in the direction of the east gate of Echeng, so that Zhang Xi could pass through the tidal flats along the river outside the east gate without danger, close to the direction of Wei Yan's camp, and created a very good condition for receiving Wei Yan.

War is sometimes like this, there can be a lot of layout before the war, considering the conditions and reactions of all aspects, but when the war really breaks out, all the main general can do is to improvise and then resign himself to fate.

This time, God favored Zhang Xi and created too good rescue conditions for Zhang Xi, which made this rescue dangerous.

Therefore, after returning to the city, Kou Feng and Wei Yan didn't have much reaction, but it took Zhang Xi a long time to calm down, which was too dangerous and too lucky.

Next time there is such a thing, I won't do it again if I kill Zhang Xi, and I'm a little unlucky, so I'll explain it today.

Zhang Xi's side is in shock, and Zhou Yu's side is on his side. is a good handsome guy, and he is all angry with his black face.

Good guys, really good guys.

He Zhou Lang has been crisscrossing Jiangdong for so long, and today he was actually under the city of Exian County, and was tricked by a small city guard with a plan to attack the west!

When Wei Yan broke through to the east gate of Echeng, and there were still people there to answer, Zhou Yu knew that the charging troops coming out of the south gate were a disguise, and he was completely calculated.

Although in hindsight, Zhou Yu also felt that this strategy was not too subtle, but it was only a combination of various luck factors that happened to succeed. But it's a very unpleasant feeling.

In the past, he used tricks to fool others, but now it's good that he was tricked by others.

But fortunately, although the opponent took away the soldiers in the camp outside the city this time, his goal had been achieved, the response troops on the periphery of Hubei City had been uprooted, and the Jiangdong Army did not have any major losses. Zhou Yu is still calm.

Since this is already the case, it is useless to be annoyed, let alone attack the city directly in a fit of anger. This is what the puppet did.

Zhou Yu ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp, and then spent two more days supervising the rebuilding of siege equipment and preparing for the second siege.

This time, there was no strategy for the camp outside the city, and Zhou Yu went to see what else this city defender could do to stop his siege equipment.

After supervising the construction of siege equipment, Zhou Yu remained calm and began to command the army for a second siege.

And now Zhang Xi really has no way.

He especially hopes now that a person named Huo Jun can suddenly appear next to him, but Hao Zhao can too.

Speaking of Hao Zhao, Zhang Xi began to complain again, why didn't you think of bringing a few barrels of soybean oil over at the beginning? !

But if you have a few barrels of soybean oil in hand, it is not a matter of minutes to burn a few ladders and rush cars?!

Now it's okay, you can only take the regular route of defending the city and fight to the death on the city walls.

Although they responded to Wei Yan's response troops, the soldiers who followed Wei Yan out of the encirclement and returned to Echeng were only five or six hundred, plus less than a thousand people in Zhangxi City, and the total number of defenders was only about 1,500 people.

The Jiangdong Army, which was attacking on the opposite side, not only had siege equipment, but also about 15,000 people.

Ten times the enemy, no response outside, no reinforcements inside. In terms of the art of war, it is simply a sure defeat.

Unless the person leading the troops is called Huo Jun or Hao Zhao.

Anyway, Zhang Xi now feels that he can hold on for more than ten days, which is already a great achievement.

Zhang Xi really couldn't imagine how Huo Jun relied on hundreds of people, faced the siege of tens of thousands of people, held on for more than a year, and finally fought back.

One day, after just one day of defending the city, Zhang Xi began to blister at the corners of his mouth in a hurry.

In the battle of defending the city, although the defender has the cover of the city wall, it does not mean that the defender will not have casualties.

After the defense of this day, the defenders of Echeng were only more than 40 killed, but more than 200 were wounded. The number of wounded was even higher than in the field, reaching an astonishing 1 to 5.

Although most of the soldiers are mainly non-fatal minor injuries, you can't continue to drive the wounded soldiers up the city wall to fight, and you have to let the family recuperate for a few days before you can continue to fight.

Fighting with wounds can easily cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers, which in turn may cause a mutiny, so don't defend the city.

Fortunately, the city of Echeng was small, and Wei Yan's response troops returned to the city, which also gave Zhang Xi the possibility of rotating the guards. The wounded were evacuated to rest and recuperate, and the defensive forces were rearranged on the four walls.

But this will not last long.

If calculated according to the probability of injuring more than 200 people a day, it will only take about seven or eight days, and everyone in the defenders of Echeng will be injured.

Zhang Xi was even worried that he would not be able to hold out at that time, as long as more than half of the injured people were injured, the morale of the entire Echeng defenders would drop to zero, and by that time, Echeng might be lost at any time.

Zhang Xi was worried, desperately trying to find a way.

One is to think about what other means of defending the city can be used, and the other is to consult Wei Yan and ask him if there is a good way.

But Wei Yan didn't have a good way, he told Zhang Xi bluntly that now is a stage of desperate defense and casualties, compared to who has stronger willpower between the besieging side and the defender, and there is no way to think about it.

As for Zhang Xi's concern about the injury of all the staff in seven or eight days, Wei Yan felt that Zhang Xi was thinking too much.

Let's not say that war is not arithmetic, let's just say that the Jiangdong Army on the other side can really maintain such a high-intensity siege frequency for seven or eight days?!

The opponent is also a human being, and there will be casualties, and as an attacker, the casualty statistics will only be greater than that of the defender.

Seven or eight days of continuous attack can certainly cause huge casualties to the defenders of Echeng, but the price that the Jiangdong Army will have to pay is probably at least three times that of the defenders of Echeng, or even more.

It depends on whether the Jiangdong Army is willing to lose thousands of men and horses under the small city of Echeng.

You must know that there is still Yixian County behind Echeng, and Xiling reinforcements may also arrive at any time, and the Jiangxia Navy is not completely without the strength to fight. Is the Jiangdong Army willing to delay for so long under Echeng.

(End of chapter)