After making the decision to fight, Zhang Xi began to send troops to set up the formation.

To fight on the ground in Liangzhou, we must first prepare for the cavalry charge, so the vehicle formation must be there.

However, one of them did not have too many car formations in Ji County, and it was too late for the other to do it now, so Zhang Xi had to ask the messenger to inform Zhang Fei and ask Zhang Fei to send someone to send a batch of Wugang cars into the city, and at the same time agree on a battle plan with Zhang Fei.

According to Zhang Xi's idea, it is to use the chariot formation to guard the left and right wings and prevent the two wings from being attacked by cavalry, so the chariot formation on the two wings is handed over to Jiang Xu and Zhang Yi to command.

The cavalry on the frontal battlefield could only be carried hard, so Zhang Xi put all the pikemen in the county in front and handed them over to Wei Yan to command.

Zhang Xi himself sat in charge of the Chinese army, so that the elite 3,000 middle army soldiers could respond at any time.

This is the military formation arrangement of Zhang Xi's side.

As for Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi asked Zhang Fei to lead his troops into the battlefield from the southwest and attack Guo Huai's flank when Zhang Xi and Guo Huai were engaged in a fierce battle, which would best cause Guo Huai's army to waver.

The last killer move, Zhang Xi handed it over to Ju Fu, and ordered Ju Fu to lead 3,000 people, and when Guo Huai's Chinese army appeared in a gap, he led the troops to attack Guo Huai's middle army.

The reason why Jufu is used is because Jufu's position in the army is not conspicuous, Guo Huai does not understand Jufu's ability at all, and he will not be more vigilant against the soldiers led by Jufu.

But Zhang Xi knew that those who could be compared with Wang Ping in the late Shu Han period must be not bad.

And to be honest, as long as Jufu has the ability of eighty percent of Wang Ping, he can also complete this unexpected task.

Not to mention, for the sake of insurance, Zhang Xi asked Jiang Wei to join the army as a sentence support and lead the troops into battle together. If you don't die Guo Huai, I'll add Jiang Wei, I don't believe you can prevent it.

After arranging these, Zhang Xi can only resign himself to fate.

One thing to say, this is the most uncertain battle that Zhang Xi has fought since he crossed over, except for the time when Exian first went into battle.

Moreover, this battle is to show that this inferior class is desperate, and it is almost ironclad to exchange the lives of soldiers for uncertain victory. Zhang Xi's mood is really not too good.

Zhang Xi has been in this era for more than ten years, and he knows that in this troubled era, he can't ask for anything at all, and it is the mainstream of this era to achieve success. But after all, I was in a bad mood.

One thing to say, Zhang Xi is now starting to get angry, angry at Ma Chao, if this goods can be in place as soon as possible, he doesn't have to let the soldiers take their lives to fill it.

But now, what can be done?

Adjust your mentality, and the next day, go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Guo Huai was also very curious, Ji County, who had been a turtle with a shrunken head for ten days, was unusually this time, and when it was just dawn, he went out of the city to line up, as if he was planning to go out of the city to fight.

Although I don't know what kind of conspiracy that Zhang Xi played, since you are out of the city, then I don't have to worry about your turtle shell.

Guo Huai immediately led his troops out of the camp, and the two sides started a confrontation at the north gate of Ji County.

There was no superfluous dialogue, and there was no mutual temptation, Zhang Xi directly ordered the flag to wave after arranging the defense of the vehicle formations on both sides, and Wei Yan led the spearmen to rush forward and launched an offensive against the Wei army.

And Guo Huai was not polite, and directly ordered his cavalry to start a movement war, part of which attacked Zhang Xi's car formation from the flank, and the other part launched a surprise attack directly on the front army.

But the Liangzhou cavalry under Guo Huai did not stupidly rush directly at the pikemen, but took an arc, first shooting pikemen with cavalry to disrupt the formation of pikemen, and then cavalry assault, after defeating the defense of some pikemen, the cavalry retreated, disrupted the formation with cavalry again, and after retreating to a sufficient distance, the cavalry assaulted again.

Therefore, Wei Yan's front army fought very hard.

The pikemen had to hold a spear four or five meters long in both hands, and there was no third hand to defend with a shield, so the pikemen were hard against the threat of bows and arrows, striving to get close to the cavalry quickly, killing and wounding the cavalry with a spear formation, and at the same time shortening the cavalry's charging distance.

As long as the cavalry speed cannot be raised, the pikemen can be slightly more comfortable in the face of the cavalry's onslaught.

But along the way, every step of the way, there will be soldiers falling, and in such a military formation, once they fall, they will face not only casualties caused by arrows, but also the trampling of their own soldiers, and it is basically impossible to leave their lives.

Either continue to keep moving forward after being hit by an arrow, or meet death after falling.

Therefore, after paying a great price for casualties, Wei Yan still commanded the pikemen after all, barely maintaining the formation, and killed the cavalry at a distance where it was difficult to start.

At this time, Guo Huai was also desperately thinking about countermeasures.

It was not a countermeasure that the cavalry was not good at starting speed, this was a common situation on the battlefield, so Guo Huai quickly responded - let the cavalry use cavalry to shoot the enemy, and once it got close to the spear formation, it would retreat, and to the extent that it was impossible to kill the enemy with cavalry, the cavalry would retreat, and the rear army would reorganize its formation to strengthen the attack and impact on the enemy's two wings.

As long as they broke through the defense of the two wings, then these infantry that Zhang Xi brought out of the city were all lambs to be slaughtered.

As for the front, Guo Huai still has more than 4,000 foot soldiers, and it is enough to stop the advance of the pikemen with the bows and arrows of these foot soldiers and the hand-to-hand combat ability of these foot soldiers.

What Guo Huai is really worried about is Zhang Xi's backhand.

So far, Zhang Xi's arrangement of troops is too normal, so normal that a general will attack in this way, and the most important thing is that such an attack is not only inefficient, but also has no chance of winning at all.

Guo Huai didn't believe that a commander like Zhang Xi would make such a low-level mistake, so Guo Huai believed that Zhang Xi must have a backhand.

At the same time, Guo Huai immediately thought of Zhang Feijun in the southwest.

So far, Zhang Feijun has not made any moves, which is abnormal.

Obviously, Zhang Xi wanted to use his own forces to attract Guo Huai's attention first and create an opportunity for Zhang Fei's army to break the enemy.

But the problem is that this strategy is too obvious, and Guo Huai has been guarding against this hand, and there are still 5,000 cavalry on hand that have not been used.

Of course, Zhang Feijun has a very large number, more than 20,000, but if Zhang Feijun just hides behind the car formation and does not come out, and kills and injures his cavalry with bows and arrows, then Guo Huai really has no good way.

But once Zhang Feijun left the protection of the camp and the car formation, he came out to fight. Guo Huai believed that his 5,000 cavalry would definitely teach Zhang Fei a lesson.

Therefore, Guo Huai commanded his soldiers to deal with the strong attack on Zhang Xi's front, ordered the cavalry to increase the attack on the flank, and on the other hand, he also kept an eye on Zhang Fei's movements in the southwest direction.

At this time, on the frontal battlefield, the pikemen led by Wei Yan could no longer advance.

Without the harassment of the cavalry, the losses of the pikemen were much less, but at this time, the pikemen had been close to the infantry of the Cao army, and they were still close to each other.

At this time, the pikemen, because the guns were too long, were at a disadvantage in terms of ordnance, and many soldiers had to abandon the spears and use the ring-headed knife to fight the entire spear formation, which was scattered, and was basically in the point of fighting on their own.

At this time, it is absolutely impossible to retreat, once retreating, it will cause the soldiers to disperse, and Zhang Xi's Chinese army will be immediately impacted, thus defeating.

Therefore, Wei Yan was still struggling to maintain the formation, relying on his personal martial arts to kill the enemy to stimulate morale, and hold on to his last breath.

But even so, Zhang Xi himself didn't know when Wei Yan would not be able to hold out and when the front army would collapse.

Therefore, Zhang Xiyi gritted his teeth and asked Jiang Jian to lead his Chinese army to escort 2,000 people and go to the front army to support Wei Yan.

The front line must be maintained, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

After Guo Huai saw Zhang Xi using the Chinese army, for a moment, he wanted to change the strategy of using cavalry, and directly sent 5,000 cavalry to assault Zhang Xi's Chinese army, maybe this battle would be won.

But. That Zhang Xi, is he really so unscrupulous?!

Just when Guo Huai felt something, he found that Zhang Feijun moved.

More than half an hour after the battle on the frontal battlefield, Zhang Feijun was dispatched.

With 20,000 soldiers, the whole army went out of the camp and killed Guo Huai's army from the flank.

There is a saying that it is true that if Zhang Fei does not come out at this time, then Zhang Xijun will be defeated head-on by himself.

But Guo Huai always felt that this was an action that Zhang Xi had planned a long time ago, maybe Zhang Xi deliberately exposed flaws in the Chinese army to attract his cavalry to assault, and then let Zhang Fei suddenly kill and defeat his flank.

Fortunately, I didn't hit the trick.

Anyway, my army has the advantage, and your front army can't withstand it for too long, grinding little by little, and I will win in the end.

Thinking about this, Guo Huai gave up the plan to attack Zhang Xizhong's army, and still let 5,000 cavalry go out to intercept Zhang Fei's army according to the original plan.

At this time, Zhang Xi was actually quite anxious.

In fact, from the very beginning, this operation deviated somewhat from its intended track.

Zhang Xi knew that the cavalry had the advantage of troops, and even if it was a pikeman, it would be difficult to completely defeat the cavalry.

But Zhang Xi didn't expect this advantage to be so big.

The reason why Wei Yan was placed in the front army was that he hoped to use Wei Yan's martial arts and command ability to gain an advantage in the front army and force Guo Huai's Chinese army to support the front army.

But until now, Guo Huai's Chinese army has not moved, and Wei Yan's front army has suffered heavy casualties and shows signs of collapse.

For this reason, Zhang Xi had to invest his Chinese defense forces in advance to the front army to stabilize the front army's war situation.

In order to prevent Zhang Xi's defeat, Zhang Fei had to send troops in advance to attack Guo Huai's flank to relieve the pressure on Zhang Xi's frontal attack.

Sure enough, Guo Huai sent 5,000 cavalry to block Zhang Feijun's advance, and Wei Yan's pressure suddenly decreased a lot, and he began to slowly reverse the decline of the front army, and with the assistance of the 2,000 Chinese army led by Jiang Yin, the front line was moved forward again, suppressing Guo Huai's front army.

And Guo Huai also began to frown.

Intuition told Guo Huai that the development of the battle situation was far from being as simple as he imagined, and that Zhang Xi must have a backhand.

But the reality is that if Guo Huai does not give the front army enough support, the front army will not be able to hold on.

And Guo Huai's right army, although under the back and forth shuttle assault of 5,000 cavalry, blocked Zhang Fei's 20,000 army for a while, but Zhang Fei was a famous general after all, and he brought a large number of soldiers, and after a long time, Guo Huai was not sure whether his right army could stop it.

Therefore, there are two choices in front of Guo Huai now.

One is to let his Chinese army support the front army, and strive to defeat Zhang Xi's front army in one fell swoop, killing Zhang Xi's Chinese army, where there are not many people on the defensive, and it is not a problem to break the enemy in one fell swoop.

The other is to continue such a stalemate, with both sides desperately killed and wounded, until Liu Beijun can't stand too many casualties and retreats on his own.

The former is risky, but it can be decided in one battle.

The latter is safe, but if Zhang Feijun breaks through the interception of his cavalry on the right flank, he will also suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, Guo Huai decided to use the first one.

(End of chapter)