Guo Huai is also a famous general, although he didn't sleep well all night, but his brain will not be confused because of this.

After experiencing the setbacks of the first day, Guo Huai analyzed Wei Yan's strategy of going out of the city to assault and burn the Thunderbolt, and made corresponding adjustments to his Thunderbolt defense strategy.

Actually, to put it bluntly, it's not complicated, it's just that an extra cavalry defense line has been arranged.

Guo Huai found through recollection and analysis that Wei Yan led his troops out of the city twice, and when facing the first wave of cavalry assaults, he would always take advantage of the time after the cavalry started to adjust the direction of movement of the soldiers, and after avoiding the first wave of cavalry impact, he quickly adjusted back and rushed towards the Thunderbolt defenders.

Wei Yan actually just played a time difference, relying on the advantages of few others, slow speed, and easy adjustment to seize time.

But no matter what, Wei Yan still needs a little time to adjust the direction of travel of the formation, and if he launches a second attack at this time, there is very little room for Wei Yan to make adjustments again.

Therefore, Guo Huai changed the defensive strategy on the first day by adding a cavalry defense line, and tried to ensure that the remaining thunderbolts were not lost.

As for Wei Yan, when he went out of the city to fight the next afternoon, he still thought that Guo Huai only had one cavalry defense line, and after commanding the soldiers to avoid the cavalry attack, he was preparing to attack the Thunderbolt defense line as he did yesterday.

As a result, as soon as he looked up, Wei Yan saw a group of cavalry, rushing out from the right flank of Cao Ying, less than seventy or eighty paces away from him.

At this time, it is too late to command the soldiers to dodge.

Wei Yan was caught off guard, and was directly broken up by the second wave of cavalry impact, and the 1,000 soldiers he brought out were divided into two parts.

At this time, Wei Yan knew that the raid was no longer possible, so he made a quick decision, and quickly broke through with the soldiers who were still with him, and tried his best to meet the soldiers who were besieged at the other end along the way, and the soldiers who couldn't be saved could only give up, and then led the army to quickly retreat into the city.

This time, Wei Yan led a thousand troops to fight, and only more than 300 people returned to the city, with heavy losses, and Wei Yan himself was shot by a few arrows from the cavalry, and was stabbed in the shoulder, so he could not lead the troops out of the city to fight in a short time.

Zhang Xi was also helpless, after all, this matter, no wonder Wei Yan, Wei Yan had done his best, purely because there were no cavalry on his side.

Guo Huai could even split the cavalry into several parts for use, but Zhang Xi couldn't even muster a hundred cavalry at hand.

had no choice but to continue to hold on, and until after dark, Zhang Xi continued to send people to engage in Guo Huaijun's mentality.

Both sides were in pain, Zhang Xi was in pain during the day, and Guo Huai was in pain when he couldn't sleep at night.

After torturing each other for three or four days, the city walls of Ji County finally couldn't hold on and began to show signs of cracking.

Guo Huai was naturally overjoyed, which meant that in a few days, the city wall of Jixian County would be blown down.

And as long as the city wall is dilapidated to a certain extent, Guo Huai can use cavalry to enter the city and conquer Ji County, even if he doesn't use foot soldiers.

And Zhang Xi is naturally in a bad mood.

Even Zhang Xi was pondering that if Ma Chao didn't come again, he would have to abandon Ji County and retreat to Xi County to join Liu Bei.

However, this is not a good idea after all.

On the way from Ji County to Xi County, it has basically been occupied by the Qiang Hu cavalry, once Zhang Xi can't hold Ji County, then the road from Ji County to Xi County, Zhang Xi may face the interception of the Qiang Hu cavalry at any time.

These Hu people, they are incapable of attacking tough battles, and they are not willing to fight, but they are more active than one by one for this kind of pursuit and rout.

After all, the rout of the army means that the combat power is insufficient, but at the same time, there is a lot of loot, which is an excellent opportunity to make a fortune.

Therefore, Zhang Xi really can't retreat, once he loses in Ji County, Zhang Xi leads his troops to retreat to Xi County, and it is estimated that he will suffer quite heavy losses.

And there is one point, Zhang Xi is not very understanding.

As he said at the beginning, he quickly sent troops to Xixian and Ji County to attract the attention of Guo Huai's Liangzhou Army, Ma Chao broke Guo Huai from the flank, but now Zhang Xidu has been holding on to Ji County for five days, where did Ma Chao run? !

You must know that Zhang Xi brought all the infantry, and for prudent reasons along the way, Zhang Xi did not rush to march, in this case, Zhang Xi not only occupied Xixian, but also led the troops all the way to Ji County.

Even under the city of Ji County, Zhang Xi also created an excellent opportunity to firmly nail Guo Huai under the city of Ji County. Where did you Ma Chao lead the cavalry running on horseback, where did you die?!

This question, in fact, not only Zhang Xi wants to know, but Liu Bei also wants to know.

Since Ma Chao led Qiang Huyi from Wudu County, the original plan was to detour through the territory of the Qiang people, and finally go out of Di Dao, enter Longxi County, and then go south from Longxi County, quickly pass through Nan'an County, and enter Tianshui County.

Although it is quite a long way to go around the road, Ma Chao is all cavalry, and in terms of speed alone, it must be above the infantry.

Therefore, now that Liu Bei has arrived in Xixian County, Ma Chao is still missing, which makes Liu Bei very worried.

Once Ma Chao could not rush to Tianshui County as planned and launch an attack on Guo Huai's Liangzhou army, then Liu Bei could only use his main infantry force to fight Guo Huai.

Although it is not impossible to win, after all, the relationship between the arms and the restraint, even if Liu Bei wins in the end, the price paid will not be small.

This will seriously affect Liu Bei's next plan, and at that time, Liu Bei is not sure whether he has the time to compete with Cao Hong and seize Chang'an.

So Liu Bei was also very anxious and didn't know where Ma Chao was, while Fa Zheng and Pang Tong were also frowning, analyzing the current situation.

Now that Liu Bei has played his own Huangluo umbrella cover in Xixian County, then the strategic purpose of Liu Bei's group's Northern Expedition has been completely exposed, and there will be about ten days and a half months, Cao Hong should know that Liu Beijun at the Baochuan crossing is just a suspicious soldier.

And at this time, Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi will be under a lot of pressure.

Before, it was just to let Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi use the banner of Liu Bei and lead the Bai Yu soldiers to pretend in the Bao Slope Road, but if it didn't work, they could retreat to the Praise Slope and bluff.

But once the real direction of the main attack is exposed, and Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi are found to be suspicious soldiers, then they will definitely suffer from Cao Hong's fierce attack.

Before, Cao Hong didn't know the truth and didn't dare to rashly chase into the Bao Slope, for fear of being ambushed, but once Cao Hong learned that the Praise Slope was just a suspicious soldier, he would definitely lead the army to pursue.

At that time, in order to block Cao Hong's army, Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi probably had to burn the plank road and retreat to Hanzhong.

And once Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi's army was repulsed, Cao Hong could go west to Liangzhou without any worries and rescue Guo Huai. There are only about ten days to march before and after.

That is to say, within a month, if Liu Bei can't break Guo Huai's Liangzhou Army and then break Long, then once Cao Hong occupies the Longshan Road and supports Cao Wei's reinforcements, then Liu Bei's Northern Expedition may also return in vain.

And to completely defeat Guo Huai within a month, the key lies in Ma Chao.

But this Ma Chao, there is no news yet, what is the situation?!

If Ma Chao doesn't come again in the next ten days, then Fa Zheng and Pang Tong will have to suggest that Liu Bei will fight a decisive battle with Guo Huai even if he suffers casualties.

As for Ma Chao, Ma Chao is also in a hurry now.

This is a rare opportunity for Ma Chao to return to Liangzhou.

Although the current situation has made Ma Chao understand that it is unlikely that he will become the warlord who seized Liangzhou again, Cao Wei will not allow it, and Liu Bei will not allow it either.

But Ma Chao understands that if Liu Bei Group wants to gain a foothold in Liangzhou, his position in the hearts of Qianghu people is also an indispensable part.

Now that he has returned to Liangzhou, Ma Chao can still use his prestige among the Qianghu people to seek a Liangzhou assassination. It's too late, but there's really no chance.

One more. It's hard to kill back to Liangzhou, Ma Chao still has a deep hatred to revenge!

When he was opposed by the powerful forces in Liangzhou and was driven out of Liangzhou, Ma Chao has always been suspicious.

But if you have to say that Ma Chao has always hated these Liangzhou heroes, that is not true.

This place in Liangzhou has its own way of survival that belongs to the heroes of Liangzhou, and whoever can let them survive will take refuge in whom.

At the beginning, he was able to divide in Liangzhou, and these heroes also belonged to him, but later he did some things that were not authentic, and in the end he failed to defeat Xiahou Yuan, and was finally driven out of Liangzhou.

If you really want to say that you are unwilling, Ma Chao must have it, these Liangzhou old watches, especially the people in Tianshui County, are really a little unrighteous, and they will fall to whoever is strong, and they don't talk about friendship at all.

But if you want to talk about hate, Ma Chao is really not enough, after all, everyone has been like this all these years, and if you want to survive in that realm, you have to become more practical.

But!!!

There is one thing to say, but!!

Tianshui Zhao family, Ma Chao is absolutely hated.

Liangzhou is strong, allied with each other, and attacked each other a lot, but everyone more or less guarded a little bottom line, and never said that they wanted to kill the whole family.

Tianshui Zhao actually killed his entire wife, forcing himself to be alone, so he could only go to Liu Bei to survive. Ma Chao never dared to forget this hatred.

Over the years, Ma Chao has also reflected on his own work, and after allowing Wei Kang to surrender, he killed Wei Kang's family, which was indeed his own mistake, so he was driven out of Liangzhou by Liangzhou Haoqiang, which can be regarded as retribution.

But now, the Tianshui Zhao clan killed his own family, if he wasn't young, he might not even be able to leave a bloodline. Tianshui Zhao, shouldn't you also pay the price?!

Therefore, this time Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, Ma Chao was actually the most active.

Killing back to Liangzhou, when Liangzhou assassinated the history is one thing, destroying the Tianshui Zhao clan and avenging his wife and children is another.

Ma Chao was really anxious, he couldn't wait to appear in Tianshui County immediately, defeat Guo Huai, and enter Ji County.

But. Ma Chao did encounter some unnecessary trouble, and this trouble was really caused by himself.

(End of chapter)