This was the first time that Zhang Xi risked his life to personally go to the front line to kill the enemy.

Zhang Xi has always been very afraid of death, even when he was in Exian, the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, and the person who commanded the battle on the first-line city wall at that time was Kou Feng, not Zhang Xi.

But now, in the face of this battle in Jieting, Zhang Xi has no one to assign, once Wang Ping goes out of the city to make a detour and sneak attack, he must assume the responsibility that a military general should bear.

After putting on the full armor and going up to the city wall, the long sword that was originally only used as an ornament was also held in his hand, and the other hand had to hold a shield to prevent the loss. To be honest, it's quite heavy.

The enemy is attacking, rushing in the direction where Zhang Xi is, there are constantly arrows shooting, Zhang Xi's personal guards are desperately helping to resist, trying their best to protect their own commander, and other soldiers can also have a target, keep killing and injuring the enemy.

Zhang Xi suddenly found that it was not beneficial for him to go into battle in person, at least it made the focus of the enemy's attack clear, and the defenders on the earth city could also concentrate their forces to defend, unlike the need to fortify everywhere as before, but dispersed the defensive forces.

But the downside, Zhang Xi has almost been shot by the loss for the fourth time.

There is no way, to go into battle and kill the enemy is to take such a risk.

Zhang Xi is not afraid, but in the current situation, he knows the value of his existence and what he should do, although he is also worried that there will be a loss at any time, but as long as he is not really hit by the arrow, he has to hold on when it is time to hold on.

No one expects Zhang Xi to kill the enemy in person, as long as Zhang Xi appears on the city wall and lets the defenders see the commander with them, then the defenders will have the courage to continue to hold on, and this is also the value of Zhang Xi's existence now.

In this way, Zhang Xi continued to persevere, until an accident occurred on the field.

In fact, it is not a change, it should be said that it is expected, but the timing of this incident is really not so coincidental.

Just ten zhang on the right side where Zhang Xishuaiqi's banner was located, the city wall there did not support the attack for several days after all, and after a loud bang, there was a collapse.

The city wall of Jieting Tucheng may collapse, this is not only Zhang Xi, but also most of the guards of the city know about it, and they don't care too much. If the earthen wall collapses, just hold on to the gap to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the situation and repair it afterwards.

After all, it's an earthen city, not a brick city, and it's not too much trouble to repair it.

But the problem is that the place where this collapse occurred was within ten zhang of Zhang Xi's handsome banner. This position was too close to Zhang Xi's handsome banner, and when Cao Jun saw the city wall collapsing here, he immediately rushed to the gap as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

At this time, the defenders' response was obviously a little caught off guard, and for a while they couldn't hold the city defense.

And at this time, Zhang Xi had two choices.

One, like a regular general, personally led his own soldiers to plug the gap, drove out the Cao army that suddenly poured in, and stabilized the defensive line.

The other is to temporarily retreat to avoid the first wave of the enemy's onslaught, as long as the enemy army cannot break through the defensive line, and the follow-up is weak, they will always be driven out.

Of course, the guards chose the second option, after all, their main duty was to protect Zhang Xi's safety.

But Zhang Xi knows that he can't retreat, and once he retreats, God knows what chain reaction will be triggered. Zhang He, who was on the other side, would not give himself a chance to make adjustments to reorganize the army.

Therefore, Zhang Xi gritted his teeth, lifted his long sword, pushed away the protection of his personal guards, and personally rushed to the gap to kill the enemy.

And the guards were shocked, so they also hurried to follow, and fought with the Cao army who broke through the gap before Zhang Xi, and tried their best to cover Zhang Xi behind them.

But even so, there were always a few Cao soldiers who got the opportunity to fight Zhang Xi in close quarters.

Facing the Cao soldier who rushed up, Zhang Xi clenched his long sword, took a deep breath, carefully recalled the "swordsmanship" taught to him by his wife, raised his sword, and stabbed. Huh?! What about people?!

Sergeant Cao, who was still in front of him just now, has been caught by Zhang Xi's personal guards at this moment, chopped and led to other places.

Zhang Xi was not discouraged, continued to observe, looking for the enemy and finally saw one, only to meet his eyes, and was stabbed away by the guards.

Zhang Xi that depressed. I just wanted to try it and see if the swordsmanship taught by my wife would be useful.

But obviously, even if Zhang Xi has this heart, the guards around him will not give Zhang Xi this chance.

The commander of the first army, did you let you show off your swordsmanship and kill the enemy with your sword in person?!

At this time, Zhang Xi, trying to ensure his own safety is the most important thing.

Zhang Xi also figured this out, seeing that the guards stepped forward to kill the enemy and protect themselves behind him, he always maintained the protection of more than two personal guards around him. Forget it, let's stop worrying about killing the enemy, continue to hide behind people with shields, and obediently be a mascot.

Through the efforts of the guards and the soldiers who came to defend the city, the soldiers who came out of the collapsed city wall were finally driven out again, and the temporary danger faced by Zhang Xi was temporarily lifted.

The most dangerous thing about this day's offense and defense was that at this time, Zhang Xi survived without danger.

As the night slowly fell, Zhang He was not in a hurry, and took the lead in Mingjin to collect his troops, and Zhang Xi also took the opportunity to end the defense of the city, and began to re-strengthen the city wall and repair the collapsed city wall. Although the temporary repair of the wall is poorly defended, it is better than nothing.

After a day's offensive and defense, Zhang Xi carefully counted the casualties at night and found that the number of casualties had increased by more than 400

Although because Zhang Xi personally went into battle, the morale of the army was not bad after defending the city today, but if this casualty number lasted for another four or five days, no matter how high the morale was, it would not be able to hold on.

In other words, if no other accidents happen, then Zhang Xi can stay for another four or five days at most.

Now Zhang Xi can really only pin all his hopes on Wang Ping, who has already set off, and the 3,000 Wudang Flying Army led by him.

At this time, Zhang He was full of confidence.

As Zhang Xi personally went into battle to boost morale, Zhang He judged that Zhang Xi at this time no longer had any other back-up, according to the defensive strength of the street pavilion he saw today, he still needed to continue to attack for three or five days at most, and the street pavilion would be broken.

At this time, Zhang He has not yet received Guo Huai's battle report, which means that there is no change in the enemy situation in the direction of Shangqi for the time being, as for the direction of Guangwei County, the latest information Zhang He got is that Guangwei County is still holding on, and Liu Bei personally led the troops to attack Guangwei County for more than ten days, and he is in a hurry.

As long as Guangwei County insists on holding on for another five or six days to create an opportunity for Zhang He to occupy the Jieting, then even if Liu Bei defeats Guangwei County and marches to Longshan, in the face of his own situation of occupying the Jieting and Shangtai, I am afraid that he can only return in vain.

The great achievement was just around the corner, Zhang He was naturally complacent, and it was rare that he chose to be sympathetic to the soldiers, and did not force the soldiers to attack the city, giving the soldiers enough time to rest for one night, and did not continue to attack until the next day near noon.

It's not that Zhang He is careless, the main thing is that the strength of the street pavilion has become smaller and smaller, and the city wall defense of the street pavilion is estimated to be at the limit, and a little delay is not enough to make the defense of the street pavilion turn upside down.

Now Zhang He is really not in a hurry, and has the intention to let his soldiers rest well, nourish their mental and physical strength, and strive to completely break through the street pavilion in these two days.

In fact, Zhang's approach is effective.

Zhang Hejun's attack on the sixth day, Zhang Xi felt that it was more difficult than the first five days combined.

It's not just that the walls of Jieting Tucheng can't hold up, and there are many collapses, but more importantly, with the loopholes in the city defense of Jieting Tucheng, the defenders commanded by Zhang Xi are getting more and more busy when defending, and often the danger in one place has not been completely eliminated, and the other place is broken through by the enemy.

Under the non-stop attack, the defenders were killed by the enemy many times on the city wall, and the defenders took longer and longer to completely drive Cao Jun off the city wall, and the price paid was getting bigger and bigger.

The current Jieting defenders rely on Zhang Xi to supervise the battle on the city wall, so they rely on this breath to support, and the worst thing is that Zhang Xi doesn't know when this breath will completely dissipate.

In today's battle, Zhang Xi once again risked the loss to stick to the battle, and today's Zhang Xi's luck is not as good as yesterday, a total of two losses shot Zhang Xi's armor, but fortunately, they are all strong crossbows, and they did not completely penetrate the armor, and even Zhang Xi did not realize that he was lost, but Zhang Xi's personal guards were startled.

What really worried Zhang Xi was that when the casualties were counted at night, there were more than 100 more casualties among the soldiers today than yesterday. In two days combined, there are already a thousand casualties.

Now Zhang Xi can still use the guards of the city, counting the number of people who can still go into battle with minor injuries, there are only more than 3,000 people.

Nearly half of the casualties were killed.

If this number of people is not able to appear behind Zhang He tomorrow and give Zhang Hejun effective killing, then Zhang Xi may not be able to hold it tomorrow.

(End of chapter)