In an encounter in front of Luoyang City, from daytime to dark, both sides suffered losses, but after all, the final winner was not determined.

After each side suffered more than 1,000 casualties on the battlefield, after nightfall, they began to disengage with each other, and each slowly retreated, encamped, and waited for the battle to be fought again tomorrow.

Zhang He is not worried at all, after all, he is the one who has the advantage now, even if he is discovered by someone, it doesn't matter, anyway, he has already arrived in Luoyang, and it is not far from the street pavilion, and the enemy army is in front of him, so he is not worried about this enemy running away at all.

And Zhang Xi, who is now pacing back and forth in the camp that has been set up simply, is extremely uneasy.

In the past, no matter who was around him, Zhang Xi always had someone to discuss and do together, and with Zhang Xi's foresight, the person around him who could negotiate was more or less a famous general, and at the very least, he had to be a staff officer like Ma Tan.

But not this time, this time there was only Zhang Xi alone, and all the decisions had to be made by Zhang Xi himself, and he suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

It's just that he felt uneasy in his heart, just in case, Zhang Xi led the troops over to take a look, but he really met Zhang He.

During the day, it was an encounter, and there was no time to think about it, and when I saw the enemy there, my natural first reaction was to retreat from the enemy first. Now that he has finally calmed down and has enough time, he can think about it carefully, but the more Zhang Xi thinks about it, the more he feels that the current situation is troublesome.

The top priority is to decide what to do next, whether to stick to the local area and continue to fight with Zhang He, or to retreat first and retreat to the street pavilion to hold on? !

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Xi felt that he must not fight with Zhang He, even if he had to fight, it should not be that he had to enter the fortifications in the field battle, and rely on the fortifications to effectively kill and injure the enemy, otherwise it would be quite unfavorable to himself to fight for casualties in such a field battle.

Therefore, Zhang Xi decided that he could not continue to stay outside the city of Luoyang to confront Zhang He, but should find a way to retreat, at least to Jieting, where there is a city, a camp, and at least the capital to hold on.

But if you just retreat to the street pavilion. If you think about it carefully, it seems that the entire strategic focus seems to have returned to the old path of history.

There are two main points in the whole Longshan Road, one is Shangtai, and the other is the street pavilion

Although Zhang He did not lead the cavalry to appear in the street pavilion before, he was replaced by Fei Yao, but now, Zhang He still came to the street pavilion.

And although Zhang He did not surprise Zhang Xi, he attacked Zhang Fei in Shangqi, temporarily repelled Zhang Fei, and won enough opportunities for himself, while Liu Beijun's side was still in a situation where he was still up and down, and Guangwei had not yet been obtained.

Zhang Xi must stick to the street pavilion in order to hold the bottom line of Liu Bei's group to continue to realize the broken dragon, so as to provide enough time for Zhang Fei to make a comeback to conquer Shangqi and Liu Bei to conquer Guangwei County.

Speaking of which, it is still necessary to stick to the street pavilion.

Moreover, the situation facing Zhang Xi now is even worse than the situation faced by Ma Jian in history.

Ma Jian still has Zhuge Liang's main army as a backup, and even after learning that Ma Jian went up the mountain to camp, Zhuge Liang can ignore Shang Tai and directly lead people to rescue Zhang Xi, who has no such treatment.

Now Zhang Xi doesn't know when Zhang Fei will get reinforcements to counterattack Shangqi, and he doesn't know when Liu Bei will be able to completely conquer Guangwei County. In other words, Zhang Xi had no backup, he had to rely on the thousands of people in his hands to defend the street pavilion, either until his entire army was annihilated, or he could defend Liu Bei's army to support and defeat Zhang He.

It is even said that even if Zhang Xi wants to withdraw, he has nowhere to withdraw.

In front of him is the 20,000 Cao army infantry led by Zhang He, to the east of the street pavilion is the 20,000 Cao Wei cavalry led by Fei Yao, and behind him is Guangwei County, which is now also the territory of the Cao army. Zhang Xi's surroundings were already full of Cao Jun, and all the retreats had been blocked, and there was nowhere to run if he wanted to.

In this case, it is not easy to defend the street pavilion, to maintain the morale of the army, and to encourage the soldiers to hold on with you, not to mention that you don't know how long you have to defend it.

But. There is no way, if Liu Bei's group wants to break Longshan, then the street pavilion must be guarded, otherwise even if Liu Bei occupies the five counties in the north of Yongzhou, there is no way to free up his hands to attack Liangzhou, and the contact between Guanzhong and Liangzhou is continuous, and Cao Jun can also send troops to recapture the five counties at any time.

The distance from Guanzhong to the five counties is too close, and Hanzhong is too far from the five counties, such a situation means that even if Liu Bei defeats the five counties in the north of Yongzhou, he will not be able to hold on for a long time, and sooner or later he will be recaptured by Cao Wei, not to mention the more distant Liangzhou.

Therefore, even if there is a glimmer of hope, this street pavilion still has to hold on.

After making a decision, Zhang Xi had to organize the soldiers to march out of the camp at dawn and barely see the road, striving to distance themselves from Zhang He's army as much as possible, quickly retreat to the street pavilion, and join Wang Ping to hold on together.

As for Zhang He, after discovering Zhang Xi's retreat, he immediately launched a pursuit, but he didn't really expect to use the pursuit to break the enemy, but chasing the enemy's ass like this can greatly reduce the morale of the enemy and create psychological pressure on the enemy.

The enemy is so many enemies, and the current situation is very unfavorable to them, if they can break the fighting spirit of the enemy army from the heart, it will definitely be more cost-effective than fighting hard for the lives of soldiers.

Zhang Xi knew Zhang He's plan, but he really couldn't help it.

The previous encounter made the distance between the two sides very close, and even if Zhang Xi wanted to arrange for the soldiers to set up an ambush in advance, he didn't have time to implement it, so he could only stand up to Zhang He's disgusting people behind his buttocks, and he had to quickly retreat to the street pavilion.

As long as you retreat to the street pavilion, you can take a breather for a while.

Of course, Zhang Xi didn't forget to inform Wang Ping in advance, let him lead the troops to meet outside the Jieting City, arrange the bow and arrow to retreat from the enemy, don't look back, Zhang He took advantage of the situation, chased and chased directly into the Jieting, that is the funny thing.

Zhang Xi would not make such a low-level mistake, and Zhang He was obviously not stupid, after pursuing to the vicinity of Jieting, Zhang He ordered the troops to be recycled, set up camp, and began to prepare for a strong attack on Jieting.

Zhang Xi was also received by Wang Ping, returned to the street pavilion and began to prepare for defense.

Wang Ping didn't expect that Zhang Xi would really meet the Wei army when he went out on such a trip, and was suspected of being "driven back" to the street pavilion by the Wei army.

And Wang Ping is even more anxious that since the Wei army has appeared on the right side of the street pavilion, what is the situation with Zhang Feijun in the direction of Shangqi?!

Zhang Xi couldn't give Wang Ping an answer to these things, but after roughly telling what happened to him, he told Wang Ping that no matter what, we must guard the street pavilion.

Guarding the street pavilion, everyone still has a chance to live, not guarding the street pavilion, under the double pursuit of the infantry and cavalry of the Cao Wei army, it is winter, and there is no chance to climb the mountain and escape.

Wang Ping deeply agrees with this.

After Zhang Xi unified the combat thoughts of the two, he finally formally discussed with Wang Ping how to guard this street pavilion.

Ma Tan was terrific to deal with Cao Wei's cavalry, and the number was only 20,000, but now what Zhang Xi had to deal with was a total of 40,000 Cao soldiers of cavalry and infantry.

Although some arrangements were made in the street pavilion in advance, but. God knows if it will.

Therefore, Wang Ping's suggestion was that Fei Yao's cavalry should mainly be restrained by crossbowmen.

After all, there were a lot of antlers repaired before, and they all built five or six miles of area.

If Fei Yao's cavalry wanted to attack the first camp, they had to remove the antlers along the way. Fei Yaodu has been sending to demolish it for two days, and he still hasn't finished dismantling all the antlers outside the camp.

In the past two days, Wang Ping's main defensive method was to use bows and arrows to block these cavalry from coming over to remove the antlers, and the effect was not bad, Fei Yao was very annoyed by this, but there was nothing he could do.

Therefore, Wang Ping suggested that Fei Yao's cavalry should continue to be restrained in this way, and try not to let Fei Yao's cavalry and Zhang He's infantry converge, so that it could drag on for a day.

As for Zhang He's foot soldiers. There is no way to do this, so I can only rely on the city defense of Jieting Tucheng to block Zhang He's foot soldiers from attacking the city.

After a few days of repairs, the city defense of Jieting Tucheng is equivalent to no city defense.

What's the use of a few days of repairs?!

If you guard against cavalry siege, maybe it can be a little useful, directly facing Cao Wei's infantry, this earth city can play a fart role.

It's just a high platform to die, except for a little comfort in my heart, there is no use for fart.

So, in the end, do you really have to work hard and rely on human lives to hold on?!

Is there any other way?

(End of chapter)