The cold wind was still raging, and Zhang Xi solemnly organized the last 3,000 soldiers to defend the city and start a new day of defending the city.

No one knows how many comrades-in-arms will survive after today, let alone whether the street pavilion can be defended.

The morale of the army was quite low, even if Zhang Xi continued to stay in the city and command, there was not much change.

Although the tradition of Cao Wei's army besieging the city and killing prisoners still has a deterrent effect on Zhang Xijun, it will not make Zhang Xijun's fighting spirit lose now, but some smart soldiers are probably already thinking about escaping deep in the mountains and forests after the rout, and they can't be defeated, but it doesn't mean that they can't run.

Running, perhaps, is a way to stay alive.

At this juncture, Zhang Xi couldn't ask for too many soldiers, and the soldiers of this year, in the final analysis, just wanted to survive in the troubled times.

It's a time to be able to keep it for a while.

As for Cao Wei's army, the current atmosphere is completely different from that of the street pavilion defenders.

From Zhang He to the ordinary generals and soldiers, it can be seen that the number of defenders in the street pavilion is no longer large, and they are about to be unable to hold on.

A big war is coming to an end. There are many people with such a mentality, not only lower-level soldiers, but also Zhang He, who inevitably have such thoughts.

But no matter what, the battle must be fought.

Zhang He gave an order, and the Cao army, which was in a neat formation, launched the first attack of the day.

Zhang Xi naturally responded, asking the soldiers to rely on the already broken city wall to resist first, and continue to hold on if they could repel the enemy's attack.

When the enemy army can completely break through the defense line of the city wall, Zhang Xi will naturally not stay in place and wait for death, and at that time, Zhang Xi will also organize soldiers to break through the siege to seek a glimmer of life, but now he will continue to hold on.

But. At this time, Zhang Xijun's defense was no longer able to do everything, and even Zhang Xi's personal guards were seriously reduced, and now it was quite difficult to completely protect Zhang Xi.

Seeing this, Zhang Xi simply broke the jar and broke it, and ordered all the guards to enter the battle, as for himself, he also rarely abandoned the idea of being afraid of death, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, barely protecting the vital points, standing on the city tower to supervise the battle.

Cao Jun did not concentrate on attacking Zhang Xi's shrinkage anymore, after all, the current Zhang Xi Army is full of defensive loopholes, and it is only a matter of time before it is broken, so there is no need to fight Zhang Xi to the death.

In the first round of offensive during the day, Cao Jun had already killed all of them on the city wall, and started a fierce hand-to-hand battle with Zhang Xijun on the city wall of the street pavilion.

This time, no one can take care of Zhang Xi anymore, even if Zhang Xi retreats relatively backward, there will still be a few Cao troops who break through the front and surround them. Zhang Xi's swordsmanship finally has a place to use.

Facts have proved that the swordsmanship taught by Sun Shangxiang to Zhang Xi is really not used to play good-looking, it can really kill the enemy.

But the problem is that Zhang Xi's strength, speed, and agility are only at the level of an average soldier.

Relying on the protection of the armor of his whole body, although Zhang Xi was slashed in the shoulder by Sergeant Cao's ring head knife, he did not suffer any substantial damage, on the contrary, he also stabbed a sword with his hand. But unfortunately, Zhang Xi's attack power was limited to stabbing the enemy and forcing the enemy to retreat.

failed to win the first number of kills in his life, and Zhang Xi didn't have time to sigh, because the second Cao Jun had already killed.

In this case, Zhang Xi didn't have time to think at all, and immediately faced the enemy and killed him. Although he still failed to kill Cao Jun, he also scared off the two Cao Jun by relying on his bluffing posture.

Zhang Xi still wanted to take advantage of the situation to kill the enemy again, but the Cao army that could break through to Zhang Xi, the boss, was only a few after all, and Zhang Xi was not without his own soldiers, so after chasing two steps, Zhang Xi found that the hole in the defense line was blocked again, and there was no Cao army by his side.

At this time, Zhang Xi had the heart to raise his head again and observe the situation on the battlefield. I wondered if after repelling this Cao army's attack, it was time to organize the soldiers to break through.

If you continue to hold on, you can't hold it anymore, so it's better to take advantage of the fact that everyone still has the physical strength to organize a wave of breakthroughs, and use everyone's desire to survive to get a glimmer of life.

And at this time, Zhang Xi found that behind Zhang He's military camp, there seemed to be some smoke and dust. Is this Wang Ping finally here?!

Zhang Xi was not sure, continued to be patient, and looked hopefully to see that the smoke and dust in the rear of Zhang He's army was getting bigger and bigger, and Zhang Hejun also began to make adjustments, and transferred a group of soldiers to the rear, so that the offensive of Cao's army, which was attacking head-on, slowed down a little.

At this time, Zhang Xi couldn't care so much, and quickly ordered the remaining soldiers to move closer to him, after collecting more than a thousand soldiers, Zhang Xi ignored it, immediately raised his arms and shouted, saying, "Soldiers, the reinforcements have arrived, don't kill the enemy at this time, when will you wait?!" ”

After saying this, Zhang Xi took the lead, personally rushed to the front of the team, and led the troops to kill Cao Jun.

In fact, at this time, Zhang Xi really couldn't be sure what happened in the rear of Zhang He's army, whether Wang Ping really led his troops to kill him. But Zhang Xi knew that at this kind of time when everyone could see hope, his soldiers would definitely burst out with super high combat effectiveness for a short time under the stimulation of the desire to survive.

If it is indeed Wang Ping's army that leads the army to kill at this time, then Zhang Xi cooperates with Wang Ping at this time and attacks Zhang Hejun on both sides, and there is some probability of repelling Zhang Hejun.

If it was just some turmoil within Cao's army at this time, and it wasn't Wang Ping who killed him, then Zhang Xi could also take this opportunity to encourage the sergeants and soldiers of the army to break out of the encirclement and seek a glimmer of life.

Until now, Zhang Xi can't be too demanding of soldiers, and now it should be time for him, the main general, to lead everyone to find a way out.

Therefore, Zhang Xi will make the decision to break through in advance, leading more than 1,000 soldiers in front, and the other soldiers, if they are willing to follow, then rush together, if they want to break up and flee into the mountains and forests, Zhang Xi will not stop it.

It's just that not only Zhang Xi, but also Zhang He also underestimated the situation behind him.

Zhang He was on guard against the rear army, but this defense was based on Zhang He's prudence and routine precautions.

After all, Zhang He has always believed that his back road is protected by Guo Huai, and with Guo Huai's ability, it is unlikely that Zhang Fei, who is at a disadvantage in a short period of time, will be defeated again by Zhang Fei, even if he is really defeated by Zhang Fei, with Guo Huai's ability, he will also warn himself.

Therefore, Zhang He really thought that his back road was safe, and sent soldiers to protect the rear wing, just in case, there was only a team of 1,000 people.

Although Zhang He was also a little surprised when he saw the smoke and dust rising behind him, in Zhang He's opinion, the people who could appear behind him at present were probably the troops sent out to ambush before the defenders of Jieting, and the number would not be too much.

Therefore, Zhang He did not worry too much, but sent 2,000 people from the front army to support the rear army, trying to block the small army that was attacking from the rear.

As long as he broke the Jieting Shu army head-on, this small army that attacked and harassed naturally could not pose any threat.

But. What Zhang He didn't expect was that the killing behind him was not just a small army, but more than 7,000 elite infantry soldiers led by Zhang Fei himself.

Among them, there are 3,000, and they are still the best at mountain warfare.

This number of enemy troops was completely beyond Zhang He's expectations, so when the soldiers sent by Zhang He to the rear army were easily defeated by Wang Ping's Wudang Fei Army, Zhang He was not mentally prepared for this at all.

Zhang He didn't react, but Zhang Fei's reaction was fast.

Seeing that Wang Ping broke through a group of blocking troops in the rear army, Zhang Fei did not fall in love with the rear army and seek a senseless number of enemies, but directly ordered Wang Ping to lead the Wudang Fei army to take the lead, using the characteristics of the barbarian soldiers who are good at mountain attacks, to kill the Chinese army of Zhang He's army as soon as possible, not to kill the enemy, as long as he tore a gap, so that his follow-up foot soldiers have a chance to kill Zhang He's Chinese army, and set off a wave of chaos in Zhang He's Chinese army.

Once Zhang He's army was in chaos, Zhang Fei would repeat his old tricks, leading a thousand elites of the headquarters to raid Zhang He's marshal tent, replicating the battle of the ditch, forcing Zhang He to be unable to effectively command the army and plunging the army into chaos.

Although Zhang Hejun has more soldiers, once it falls into chaos, no amount of troops can exert its combat effectiveness, on the contrary, Zhang Feijun, who came prepared, is really likely to win more with less and completely defeat Zhang Hejun.

And Zhang He really didn't have much defense against this, mainly because Zhang He couldn't have imagined that there would be more than 7,000 Liu Bei's soldiers in his back road, and his current number of foot soldiers was only 15,000 or 6,000.

Not to mention, the person who led the arrival of the troops was Zhang Fei. Zhang He really couldn't figure out why Zhang Fei would appear behind him, but Guo Huai, who was supposed to be guarding behind him, didn't react at all?!

And then it is also the most serious and the most fatal thing - that Zhang Fei, just like the Battle of the Ditch, led the army to raid his own Chinese military tent, if Zhang Fei was forced to climb the mountain and escape, then Zhang He really wouldn't lead the troops to fight in the future, the front was under the city of Shangqi, and finally relied on the shame of repelling Zhang Feixue, all of which were ineffective.

Therefore, Zhang He couldn't retreat, and the gritted leader of the troops killed Zhang Fei's assault troops, and the two sides set off a scuffle.

With the lessons learned from the Battle of the Ditch, Zhang He understood that he had to repel Zhang Fei's assault team first, so that he could free up his hands to command the soldiers to calm down, and take advantage of the large number of people to besiege and kill these raiding soldiers.

But the problem is, not to mention that Zhang Fei is not so easy to repel, even Zhang Xi, after finding that Zhang He's army is in chaos from the rear army to the Chinese army, he will not just think about breaking through and escaping, he has quickly adjusted the direction of the attack, and also covered up Zhang He's front army.

And the chaos between the Chinese army and the rear army obviously also affected the offensive of Zhang Hejun's front army, and the former sergeants didn't know what was happening behind them, and they fell into a short period of confusion, not knowing what they should do next.

Zhang Xi seized this opportunity and broke through the interception of Zhang He's army in one fell swoop, and also killed Zhang He's Chinese army.

Zhang He couldn't do anything about it, he had to concentrate and get rid of Zhang Fei first.

It was at this time that something happened that made Zhang He even more desperate.

Behind the street pavilion, a large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly kicked up, and a cavalry team of nearly 10,000 people was rapidly approaching the direction of the street pavilion.

Behind the street pavilion, that is the direction of Guangwei County, Zhang He doesn't believe that Guangwei County is too guarded under the siege of Liu Bei, and he can still have the spare strength to send cavalry to besiege the street pavilion.

Therefore, this must be the reinforcements sent by Liu Bei.

And soon, Zhang He saw the figure of this cavalry, as well as the banner of the leading general of this cavalry - "Shenwei Heavenly General Horse".

This time, Ma Chao did not miss the deadline, on the contrary, he arrived early.

(End of chapter)