On the first day of the siege of the Liangzhou army, Zhang Xi frowned slightly.

The Liangzhou Army is indeed not good at siege, Guo Huai knows this, so Guo Huai did not follow the conventional siege routine, and let the soldiers build siege equipment such as hook ladders and cloud ladders.

Guo Huai directly pushed twenty thunderbolt carts to the front of the battle, used the thunderbolt carts to throw stones, and tried to smash part of the city wall, and then let the cavalry enter the city through the gap in the city wall.

In order to prevent the Shu army from going out of the city and burning the thunderbolts, Guo Huai also asked his subordinates to lead the Liangzhou cavalry to line up outside the north gate of Ji County, ready to rush and kill at any time.

In this way, the siege of the Wei army began.

It was also the first time that the defenders of Ji County encountered such a siege method.

First, the cavalry did not see the cavalry harassing the city wall with cavalry, and the second did not see the other side climbing the siege with a ladder, and all the Wei troops lined up two hundred paces away, and then let twenty catapults throw stones at the city wall.

Some stones smashed on the city wall, causing a lot of noise, and some stones directly smashed into the defenders of Ji County, causing a lot of commotion.

The soldiers on the city wall, whether they are soldiers from Shu or the original Tianshui soldiers in Ji County, there are not many people who have seen catapults attacking the city.

The county soldiers on the side of Tianshui County don't even know what the catapult commander looks like, and today is the first time they have seen such siege equipment, so it is understandable that they are panicked and do not know how to take precautions.

And the soldiers from Shuzhong, in fact, not many people have seen the catapult siege of the city, only a few soldiers who participated in the siege of Chengdu City know the power of the catapult.

But at that time, they belonged to the side that smashed people with catapults, not the side that was smashed, and they did not have much experience in how to guard against stones falling from the sky.

Therefore, the defenders of Ji County were smashed, and they were indeed a little flustered and at a loss.

Some timid soldiers wanted to run down the city wall to avoid the flying stones, but soon, they were re-caught up with the city wall by the military law team led by the captain and Jun Zheng.

And the soldiers who stayed on the city wall in the end could only subconsciously raise their shields to block, or hide under the female wall without showing their heads, and reluctantly still guard the city wall.

After Zhang Xi saw it, he knew that it would definitely not work if it went on like this, even if the city wall was not smashed, the morale of the army would be smashed sooner or later.

Somehow has to be found to get rid of these thunderbolts.

And Zhang Xi's first response plan was to find the bed crossbow at the head of the wall.

At the distance thrown by the Thunderbolt, only a bed crossbow can hit the Thunderbolt. But unfortunately, there is no bed crossbow at all in Ji County.

The Liangzhou soldiers were not good at attacking the city, the enemy cavalry approached the city wall, and it was okay to retreat the enemy with bows and arrows, no one thought that Guo Huai would play what kind of thunderbolt in Liangzhou in this era, there was really no such siege.

The first option is invalid.

Then Zhang Xi had to use the second plan - to order people to go out of the city and burn the thunderbolt car.

Zhang Xi handed over this important task to Wei Lao Pifu.

There is no way, Wei Lao Pifu is the one with the most experience and the strongest combat ability in the city now, and this kind of arduous task will not be handed over to him.

You must know that this time when you go out of the city to burn the thunderbolt car, you not only have to engage with the opponent's escort troops, but also have to withstand the threat of the enemy's cavalry charge, which ordinary people really can't do.

To be on the safe side, Zhang Xi gave Wei Yan 3,000 people.

Wei Lao Pifu was very excited about this, and he didn't shirk it at all because he felt that the task was very dangerous In Wei Yan's opinion, using himself at this moment is the time to show his true ability.

What's more, Wei Yan's fart injury is also healed, and he has no worries at all.

But just one point, Wei Yan thinks that there is no need for 3,000 people at all, it is enough to give him 1,000 people.

This is really not Wei Yan's arrogance, it is really the size of a team of 3,000 people, and it is too difficult to command.

This time the city raid burned the thunderbolt, and the focus was on a quick word.

Not only should you get out of the city quickly, but you must also attack quickly, and you must return faster. Otherwise, they will be completely surrounded by the opponent's cavalry outside the city, and even if they can break through, they will suffer very heavy losses.

In the current Ji County, there is no good way to block the impact of the cavalry, and it is necessary to go out of the city to fight against the impact of the cavalry.

In this way, the team of 3,000 people will be relatively bloated, and it is easy to be broken up into several sections by the cavalry team because the order is not given in time, and thus be surrounded and suppressed one by one.

Again, three thousand people, whether it is out of the city or into the city, it will take a long time, but when you get outside the city, it will not give you much time to meet the enemy in formation, and even if you meet the enemy, with the scale of three thousand people, it is impossible to break through the encirclement and interception of thousands of cavalry.

Therefore, Wei Yan felt that a thousand people were no more and no less, and they could not only command quickly and agilely, but also have enough combat power to kill the enemy's Thunderbolt garrison and burn the Thunderbolt Cart.

This is Wei Yan's idea, at this time, Wei Yan will not be angry with Zhang Xi, after explaining the reason, he led a thousand people to assemble at the gate of the city, ready to go out of the city to fight at any time.

At this time, Zhang Xi would not go to raise the bar with Wei Yan, followed Wei Yan's advice, and at the same time ordered the archers on the city wall to be ready to meet Wei Yan's army Now is not the time to be rash.

Under such circumstances, Wei Yan led a thousand soldiers out of the city.

And Guo Huai, seeing that the gate of Ji County was wide open and someone was leading the troops to fight, he also sneered. Just those infantry in your city, you still want to break through the obstruction of your own cavalry and come to burn the thunderbolts?!

It's a beautiful thought.

Now Guo Huai feels that he has won the battle.

If the defenders of Ji County do not go out of the city, then they will use a thunderbolt to smash the city wall and enter the city to kill the enemy, and if the defenders of Ji County go out of the city to fight, Guo Huai can use the advantage of cavalry to completely eliminate the living forces of Ji County.

Therefore, the defenders of Ji County went out of the city to fight, Guo Huai was not worried at all, and directly ordered the cavalry on the side of the city gate to line up and prepare to rush and kill.

But. Wei Yan is Wei Yan after all, and he has been entangled with Guo Huai on the Hanzhong front line for nearly ten years in history, and he is the opponent of fate.

Guo Huai was waiting, and after the defenders of Ji County went out of the city to line up, he let the cavalry launch a surprise attack, not giving the Shu army any chance to form a formation.

But Wei Yan didn't give Guo Huai this opportunity to wait at all, as soon as the city gate opened, Wei Yan rushed out with the lead in the army, and did not form a formation at all, but just let the soldiers follow behind him and began to run around the city wall.

Guo Huai was a little dumbfounded, such a long one-word long snake formation was simply exposing his weaknesses in front of the cavalry, and he could solve the thousand cavalry with a random rush.

But the problem is that the group is running under the walls.

Guo Huai could have ordered the cavalry to attack, but if he went to attack at this time, the cavalry would first have to face the bow and arrow on the city wall to attack Guo Huai a little reluctantly.

Cavalry is much more expensive than infantry, and the Liangzhou cavalry he has on hand is still very useful, so he is reluctant to waste it so much.

Guo Huai was hesitating, but Wei Yan was not, he quickly took advantage of Guo Huai's hesitation, sorted out his 1,000 soldiers, and then led the troops and rushed directly to the Wei army's thunderbolt position.

At this time, Guo Huai finally reacted. Since you're out, then you're welcome.

Guo Huai immediately gave the order, and the cavalry charged.

But at this time, Wei Yan started his sassy operation again.

After observing Guo Huai's order for the cavalry to charge at a faster pace, Wei Yan made a decisive U-turn, changing direction from the conflict before leading the troops to moving laterally, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to raise their shields and make a move to defend against arrows.

Once the cavalry accelerates, it is impossible to slow down again in a short period of time, which will lead to scattered shock formations, and in serious cases, it may also lead to the cavalry trampling on each other.

Therefore, the cavalry could only rush towards the set goal, and try to adjust the direction of their attack as much as possible during the march.

However, as far as the impact distance outside the north gate of Ji County is concerned, for the speed of the cavalry, it is only a few dozen breaths of time to rush over, and it is difficult to adjust the direction of the battle on a large scale after the speed of the war horse increases.

In addition, at this time, Wei Yan had not completely run out of the attack range of the arrows on the city wall, and the cavalry suddenly changed direction and rushed over, not to mention that the speed was not easy to control, and he would be attacked by the arrows on the city wall.

Therefore, Cao Wei's cavalry almost roared in front of Wei Yan's army formation, and only had time to kill the enemy with cavalry shooting. And this is why Wei Yan ordered his soldiers to raise their shields.

I have to say that Wei Yan's command of these thousand people is really handy, and at the same time, his ability to grasp the details of the battlefield is also excellent.

Once the cavalry charge has passed, it will be necessary to turn around at the other end, and it will take some time to rearrange the assault line.

And Wei Yan also hurriedly seized this point in time, quickly reorganized the army again, and rushed to the Thunderbolt position before the cavalry re-arrayed.

Guo Huai's face changed when he saw it.

I have to admit that this Shu general is an excellent general, with excellent command of his corporal and excellent ability to control the battlefield.

But. Guo Huai waved the command flag, and on the right flank of the Cao army, another team of foot soldiers came out to support the Thunderbolt convoy.

Guo Huai is a famous general after all, and he will not fail to make plans for this kind of thing.

After all, the opponent is Zhang Xi, and he is also a general who is famous for his resourcefulness, and it is not impossible to dodge the impact of the first batch of cavalry, and it is impossible for Guo Huai to bet all his defense on the cavalry impact, and there are still backup means.

Therefore, in addition to the cavalry, Guo Huai also arranged infantry guards for the Thunderbolt convoy, as long as he could hold Wei Yan's infantry for a while, and when his cavalry reorganized the formation and attacked the front and rear, these Shu troops would have to be fully explained here.

Wei Yan also knew that now was a critical moment, and these soldiers could not dodge, so they could only rely on the combat strength and martial courage of the soldiers to kill them, and try to let the two armies strangle together, so as to avoid the enemy's two-sided attack to the greatest extent.

Therefore, Wei Yan took the lead and directly strangled with the Cao army's infantry.

At this time, Guo Huai's face was a little unsightly.

On the one hand, Wei Yan's personal martial arts and bravery were quite bullish, and one person was like an arrow, tearing apart the defense line of some Wei soldiers and leading the Shu army to fight with the Wei army.

On the other hand, Guo Huai found that it seemed that the Liangzhou soldiers he brought were a little unbearable in foot combat.

This is strange, what did this group of Shu soldiers eat to grow up?!

But now, Guo Huai didn't have the heart to think about this problem for the time being, and with another wave of the command flag - Guo Huai's Chinese army was dispatched to support the Thunderbolt defenders.

This Shu army must be left behind.

(End of chapter)