On the second day of the Liangzhou Army's attack on Ji County, Zhang Xi was very anxious.

Yesterday, Wei Yan led a thousand troops out of the city, relying on Wei Yan's command skills and ability to control the situation on the battlefield, although he was not able to completely break through the Wei army guards in front of the Thunderbolt convoy, but he also retreated quickly, and before the Wei army's Chinese army arrived, the leading troops reflexively fought their way out of the encirclement.

Along the way, the troops quickly retreated, although they were bitten by the tail of Cao Wei's cavalry, but with the help of the bows and crossbows of the defenders on the city wall, they retreated to Ji County without danger.

Of the 1,000 soldiers who left the city, less than 600 returned, but not a single thunderbolt was burned.

But Zhang Xi couldn't criticize Wei Yan, yesterday whether it was Zhang Xi, or Jiang Xu, Zhang Yi, Ju Fu and others, they all watched the whole process in the city, and if it weren't for Wei Yan's decisive command and super battlefield control ability, it is very likely that none of the thousands of soldiers who went out of the city would be able to come back.

It is not easy to go out of the city to fight under the threat of cavalry, and it is already very difficult to have such a result.

Therefore, in the battle after Wei Yan returned to the city, no matter how Wei Yan asked for battle again, Zhang Xi had no intention of letting Wei Yan go out of the city to fight again.

This is a battle that is not careful, it is possible that the whole army will be annihilated, and the leading generals will be regarded as a dead battle, and Zhang Xi cannot deal with it carelessly.

Hold on until dusk, when the offensive of Cao's army slowed down, Zhang Xi let the anxious Wei Yan lead a thousand troops again and go out of the city to fight.

And this time, because the battle was nearing the end, Cao Jun was a little relaxed, although Guo Huai's response was very timely, but the morale of the soldiers was no longer the same as during the day, after all, Wei Yan seized the opportunity to kill in front of the Thunderbolt convoy, killed part of the defenders, and burned three Thunderbolt cars.

But this is already the limit, Wei Yan has no time to ignite the other thunderbolts, Guo Huai's Chinese army has already rushed towards him, and if it is slower, the cavalry of the Cao army will also complete the formation behind him and rush over again.

Wei Yan made a judgment very calmly, quickly returned to the army, and fled back to the city again.

This day's offense and defense gave Zhang Xi and Guo Huai a little headache.

Zhang Xi's headache is that with Wei Yan's leading ability and personal martial bravery, he attacked twice today, and the assault like his life was just to burn the opponent's three thunderbolts.

And Guo Huai's headache is that if this situation continues to develop, his thunderbolt car will not be enough to be burned down by others several times.

The thunderbolt car is still more troublesome to build, and it takes at least two or three days for the craftsmen in the army to build one, and they don't have so much time to spend with Zhang Xi, and the real target is in Xixian County, not this Ji County.

Guo Huai looked up at the high platform still standing in the middle of the battlefield, and finally didn't have the courage to put on the women's dress, and had to think about what strategy to use tomorrow to prevent the enemy from going out of the city and attacking.

At least judging from the battle situation during the day today, Guo Huai believes that his strategy is no problem, but it is still a little imperfect in preparing for the enemy's assault out of the city.

One thing to say, Guo Huai felt that it was not that his strategy was not perfect, it was purely that the enemy was a bit strong.

That Zhang Xi is very good at using people's hearts to create opportunities, and after being blocked from going out of the city once, he actually waited so patiently until it was almost dark before launching a second raid.

This was not a surprise to himself, but a surprise to Sergeant Cao.

In fact, Guo Huai never relaxed his vigilance until he officially ordered the troops to retreat, and always paid attention to the movements of the defenders of Ji County.

But Cao Jun, who had fought for a day, couldn't be as vigilant as Guo Huai at all times, and saw that it was about to be dark to withdraw his troops, and everyone would be a little lax at this time, but as a result, Zhang Xi seized the opportunity.

And Wei Yan, the general who led the troops into battle, was also outrageous in his accurate judgment of the battlefield and his ability to control the command of the soldiers. Anyway, Guo Huai felt that if he switched positions with Wei Yan, he might not be able to do what he did.

The two times out of the city, they took advantage of the fact that the cavalry's impact speed was too fast to adjust the direction of attack, almost perfectly avoiding the first impact of the cavalry, and at the same time the timing of attack and retreat was also very accurate. As long as this person hesitates for half a pillar of incense, he will have to die on the battlefield.

Faced with such a combination, Guo Huai felt that his guard strategy was indeed not refined enough and needed to make some adjustments.

First of all, huh?! What's going on?!

Guo Huai was thinking about his defensive arrangements for tomorrow, when he suddenly heard the sound of war drums, he immediately felt a pang in his heart, and ordered the whole army to be on alert, and all departments would inspect the barracks and beware of bombing the camp in the army.

At the same time, elite scouts were dispatched to inspect the situation outside the camp, and if there was an enemy attack, they would be reported immediately.

Then, Guo Huai sat in the military tent without panicking, pretending to be calm and waiting for the scout to return.

In the event of an attack at night, the most taboo is that the commander panics, if even the commander is panicked, then the enemy may only be a sneak attack by a small force, but the entire army can be defeated, or even cannibalistic.

On the contrary, as long as the commander is calm, the lieutenant generals of the various departments will also be at ease, and these lieutenants will be at ease, and the soldiers will not be in chaos.

Guo Huai has led the troops for many years and knows the relationship well, so he is still sitting very calmly at this time, waiting for the return.

But the return of the scout made Guo Huai a little upset.

It was not a night attack by the enemy army at all, but a small group of troops took advantage of the night, with gongs and drums, quietly approached their own camp, beat gongs and drums, and retreated before their scout troops arrived.

It's not a big deal, and it's okay to retreat.

But what really upset Guo Huai was not this fake night attack.

What kind of person is Guo Huai, that is also the master who relies on his brain more than martial arts, where can he not know what the defenders of Ji County want to do.

Wait, this camouflaged night attack with gongs and drums is only the first, and there will be a second and third time to come. Once he doesn't care about anything, let him knock it, maybe the other party will really attack at night.

Even if there is really no night attack, who can sleep well if it is noisy and noisy this night?! If you fight a war the next day, how much energy can you have one by one?!

This Zhang Xi, why is the style of using calculations so disgusting. Not only does it make your mentality explode and make your mentality explode, but it is too difficult to figure out what is true and false, and once you relax your vigilance, you may be taken advantage of by him at any time.

But even if Guo Huai saw Zhang Xi's strategy, Guo Huai had no way to crack this strategy.

It stands to reason that the solution to this strategy is to send a patrol team to patrol the camp non-stop, and the other soldiers can rest in peace.

But in these years, not everyone can fight at night, especially for the people of Liangzhou, as long as it is dark, the soldiers of Liangzhou are no different from the blind.

The land of Liangzhou is bitterly cold, even if there are nomads next door, there are not many people who can eat meat, and the animal offal in these years is something that dogs don't eat, but the proportion of night blindness in Liangzhou is higher than that of Yizhou soldiers.

Zhang Xi can send dozens of people to his camp with gongs and drums to beat it, mess with the mentality, and don't let you sleep well, but Guo Huai has no way to organize a patrol team of hundreds of people, who don't sleep all night and patrol outside the camp.

He didn't have so many soldiers at hand who could see at night.

Again, once Zhang Xi really attacked at night, Guo Huai had no good way to resist it.

According to the information sent back by Gao Gang, the guard of Qishan Fort, the soldiers led by Zhang Xi really have the ability to attack at night, at least hundreds of troops of nearly 1,000 people can be put together, and the Liangzhou soldiers under Guo Huai really can't even make up hundreds of people who can see at night.

Knowing this, he should have let a few Qianghu tribes stay in the camp in the first place, so that they wouldn't even be unable to send out a patrol.

Therefore, Guo Huai had no choice but to order the whole army to be on guard and let the soldiers rest and sleep.

Not only could they not send patrols to drive out the Shu army that was beating gongs and drums, but there was also no way to relax the vigilance in the army, and they had to maintain a strong vigilance to prevent Zhang Xi from sending troops to suddenly attack at night.

Even when the sky was bright, Guo Huai's heart was in his throat. At this time, it is the easiest time for people who have stayed up all night to relax their vigilance, even if Guo Huai repeatedly reminds everyone that they cannot relax their vigilance, but the physical sleepiness of the soldiers is irresistible.

Guo Huai was really afraid, afraid that Zhang Xi would launch an attack on the camp at this time.

But Guo Huai reminded that he waited until dawn, and did not see the Shu army out of the city to attack. I finally relieved myself a little.

But just when Guo Huai ordered the whole army to make food and prepare to start attacking the city, the generals in the battalion pleaded for embarrassment. Let's not attack the city a little later.

Everyone didn't sleep well last night, not only did they have to take shifts and be on guard, but they finally fell asleep, and they could be woken up by the sound of the enemy's gongs and drums at any time.

Guo Huai that depressed. Could it be that this is also expected by that Zhang Xi?!

Guo Huai really had no choice, so he had to order the whole army to suspend the camp, rest in the camp, and move the time to the afternoon and morning when the whole army was used to make up for sleep.

After noon, Guo Huai ordered again that the whole army should leave the camp, line up the siege formation, and prepare to continue the siege.

At this time, Zhang Xi stood on the city wall, looking at the stones that were still smashing at the city wall, and he didn't feel good in his heart.

Last night's strategy was indeed Zhang Xi's idea, this time it was not a mistake, Zhang Xi just used a tired tactic to delay the time for Cao's army to attack the city.

There is no way, if it is smashed like this every day, the city wall of Ji County will not be able to hold it sooner or later, and Zhang Xi has to think of more ways to delay this time.

And this tired tactic is the best way Zhang Xi can think of.

Unexpectedly, the Cao army, which had been tossed all night, was only half a day late to attack the city.

Although the goal has been achieved, it is not perfect after all.

As for why there was no night attack. It's really not that he doesn't have that ability, at least Wei Yan has asked for battle several times and wants to go out of the city to attack at night, he has experience in this matter.

But Zhang Xi felt that with Guo Huai's ability, it was impossible to be defenseless about this, and rashly went to the night attack, which could not achieve the best results, so it was better not to send it.

But now, it is up to Wei Yan to lead his troops out of the city to kill the enemy and strive to burn more catapults.

But this time, Wei Yan went out of the city to kill the enemy, but he suffered heavy losses, and he almost couldn't come back.

(End of chapter)