Chapter 599: Outflanking the Rear Road

Liu Yin was holding on to Dachangji and waiting for help, while Zhang Xi was at this time. In fact, it has already passed Dachangji.

Liu Yin also underestimated the speed of Zhang Xi's march.

Knowing that Zhang He might lead his troops to detour from the mountain road and pass through Dachangji to sneak attack Wuzhangyuan, how could Zhang Xi lead his troops to advance at a normal marching speed.

Zhang Xi didn't know if Zhang He had passed through Dachangji, and the faster the march along the way, of course, the better.

It's just that the marching speed of 5,000 people can't compare to the marching speed of 500 people led by Liu Yin and Feng Xi, and Zhang Xi is indeed a distance behind Liu Yin and the others.

But this distance is different from what Liu Yin thought, it doesn't take half a day to march, in fact, at most, it is just a march gap of more than an hour.

Therefore, when Dachangji began to fight, in fact, Zhangxi was less than ten miles away from Dachangji.

At this point, Zhang Xi didn't want to delay too long, so he also began to march out of camp just after dawn, and at the same time sent scouts to contact Feng Xi and Liu Yin and others in Dachangji to inquire about the situation ahead.

However, the scout reported that he did not find General Liu Yin and General Feng Xi, because these two were fighting with the Wei army in Dachangji, and the scout could not break into the battlefield in a short time and find Liu Yin or Feng Xi.

One thing to say, the scouts in the army in this era are basically the most experienced and powerful existences, and they have no ability, but they can't be scouts.

But the problem is that scouts' primary duty is to deliver information and military orders, and battlefield fighting is not what they should do.

Again, the number of scouts is too small, one group is about ten people, and an army of tens of thousands of people is only a dozen groups of scouts at most.

Therefore, in this situation, the scout's first priority is not to enter the enemy line to find the friendly commander, but to hurry back and report back to the boss, so that the boss can decide what to do.

Zhang Xi carefully inquired about the current battle situation in Dachangji as the scouts, and after learning that Feng Xi and Liu Yin had a clear division of labor and were still holding on to Dachangji, Zhang Xi also began to think about it.

When the scouts came back, Feng Xi had not yet launched a surprise formation, and it was impossible for the scouts to know that Feng Xi's troops were fighting after staying up all night, and their military morale and combat effectiveness were very low. In the information that Zhang Xi obtained, Feng Xi and Liu Yin still had a total of seven or eight hundred people defending Dachangji, so many troops, Zhang Xi felt that it was enough.

Zhang Xi is not a military novice, he had already asked the villagers about the situation in Dachangji before leaving, and Gao Xiang had also sent someone to investigate before, so Zhang Xi knew that Dachangji was just a small market outside Wugong County.

This kind of small bazaar is not too large, and Dachangji is surrounded by mountains, with only two trails and two mountain roads in and out. In this place, there is no possibility of large-scale battles, and it is just a melee of hundreds of people who die to survive.

Even if he now leads his army to support Liu Yin, with the scale of Dachangji, his army is estimated to be blocked from watching the show outside Dachangji, and there is no way to effectively support Liu Yin.

You can't get in at all.

Once Zhang He really broke through Liu Yin and forced Liu Yin to withdraw from Dachangji, then Zhang He could leave hundreds of people to stick to Dachangji and block Zhang Xijun's march route, and he led the remaining 4,000 people to enter the official road directly from the south side of Dachangji and attack Wuzhangyuan.

At that time, Zhang Xi either sent troops to break the Wei army in Dachangji, and then pursued along Zhang He's marching route.

It's not impossible to do this, but with the scale of Dachangji, Zhang Xi can't invest too many troops at one time, and it is not so easy to capture Dachangji, and the most important thing is that it takes time.

Or, Zhang Xi can ignore the Wei army in Dachangji and bypass Dachangji from the official road to pursue the main force of Zhang He's army, but if he does this, there is no need for these hundreds of Wei troops to stick to Dachangji, they can completely follow behind Zhang Xi's army, keep harassing, slow down the pursuit of Zhang Xi's army, and buy time for Zhang He's raid on Wuzhangyuan.

No matter which choice is made, it will allow Zhang He to open up a certain marching distance, and Zhang He's ability to lead the troops, once he opens up enough marching distance, Zhang Xi wants to block Zhang He again, but it will not be so easy.

You can't just follow it all the way and chase back Wuzhang Yuan, right?!

Therefore, no matter how he thought about it, Zhang Xi felt that just going directly to support Liu Yin didn't seem to be of much help to the current situation.

Instead of this, it is better to believe in Liu Yin's defensive ability and let Liu Yin hold on to Dachangji for at least one morning to create opportunities for himself.

Therefore, Zhang Xi decided to speed up the march of the whole army, and quickly marched from the avenue to the south of Dachangji.

The villagers once said that there is a small road to the south of Dachangji, which can be directly connected to the official road.

And after entering this official road, you can go directly to Gojogahara. In Zhang Xi's prediction, after Zhang He came out of the mountain road and broke through Dachangji, he would definitely take this trail, and then enter the official road and quickly march into Wuzhangyuan.

What Zhang Xi has to do now is to seize ahead of Zhang He, block this passage to Wuzhangyuan, completely destroy Zhang He's strategic intentions, and then reverse into Dachangji from this trail.

At that time, there was Liu Yin holding on to Dachangji, and Zhang Xi led the troops to kill the mountain road on the south side of Dachangji. With such a blockage at both ends of the front and back, where can Zhang He go?!

Even if Zhang He could break through the defenders of Dachangji, he would no longer have a way to sneak attack Wuzhangyuan.

From the mountain road back to Wugong County?!

That's okay, Zhang Xi will definitely not stop it, but if you go back, it will take at least two or three days, at that time, it is difficult to say whether Wugong County is still in your hands or not.

If Gao Xiang had already captured Wugong County, then Zhang He would have no way to retreat, and there would be no second choice except to suffocate in the mountain road.

Taking a step back, even if Gao Xiang has not captured Wugong County during this time, let Zhang He withdraw. Do you have a second chance to sneak up on Gojogahara?!

Even if Zhang Xi doesn't do anything from now on and lets you Zhang He leave, by the time Zhang He arrives in Wuzhangyuan, Guo Huai's army will already be gone, right?!

Therefore, in Zhang Xi's opinion, as long as Liu Yin can withstand another hour or two and buy himself time to block Zhang He's march route from the south, then this time, even if Zhang He does not die, he will have to climb the mountain again and escape back to Youfufeng.

After making a decision, Zhang Xi immediately asked the army to speed up its march and rush to the south of Dachangji.

At the same time, Zhang Xi once again sent three groups of scouts, a total of thirty people, to form a commando team, and it was necessary to break into Dachangji, inform Liu Yin of his battle plan, and let Liu Yin stick to cooperate.

If Liu Yin didn't cooperate and didn't hold Dachangji, Zhang He was given time to react. With Zhang He's military style, let him break through Dachangji and enter the official road before he arrived, and Zhang Xi wanted to block Zhang He again, but it would be more troublesome.

Therefore, Liu Yin must be notified, and he must be sure to drag Zhang He at all costs.

And after Liu Yinma saw the meeting sent by Zhang Xi, after receiving Zhang Xi's military order, he also had a headache.

When the scouts found Liu Yin, it had been about half an hour since Zhang Xi officially set off to march south, and before that, Liu Yin had already repelled two attacks by Zhang He's army.

Sticking to this problem, Liu Yin thinks it's okay, he has been sticking to it. But the problem is that he still has to hold on for at least an hour, and Liu Yin is really afraid that he won't be able to hold it.

Now Liu Yin's subordinates, in fact, there are nearly 600 soldiers, at first glance, the number of troops seems to be a lot, and it is not that there is no power to fight in the face of the enemy, but Liu Yin knows that these are all false.

Among the 600 men, at least 1780 were soldiers who had just retreated from the front line and went around to the rear of the battle to recuperate.

In other words, Liu Yin can actually mobilize the troops with combat effectiveness, which is only a little more than 400 people.

Among these 400 people, there are still 150 people in the reserve force waiting outside Dachangji, and there are only 2780 soldiers who really stick to the inside of Dachangji.

Originally, according to Liu Yin's idea, it was to keep this reserve of 150 people, and after Zhang Xi led the troops to help, he used these 150 soldiers as arrows to launch a counterattack against Zhang He's army, and strive to drag Zhang He's army, cooperate with Zhang Xi's reinforcements, and regain full control of Dachangji. But now it seems that the reinforcements on which I hope will not come.

Zhang Xi's battle plan can't be said to be unreasonable, but it's a bit too difficult for himself.

But Zhang Xi is the main general after all, and since he has already made tactical arrangements, he has no time to express his opposition at all. Hold on.

Liu Yin ordered that the reserve of one hundred and fifty people be quickly put into the internal defense of Dachangji, leaving no behind, that is, to defend Dachangji.

And Liu Yin's response, Zhang He. I've heard that.

Yes, Zhang He heard about it, not saw it with his own eyes.

The reason is very simple, Zhang He is still standing at the main gate on the periphery of Dachangji, and he did not attack Dachangji with the army at all.

It's not that Zhang He is putting up a shelf, showing his general demeanor. It's purely because Zhang He can't get in.

In the crook of his knee, there is an arrow!!

At that time, in order to boost morale, Zhang He, with the support of his personal guards, stood on one leg, pretending to be casual to boost the morale of the whole army, commanding the battle, and finally broke through the frontal Shu army guards, so that the army could break into the interior of Dachangji.

But the soldiers rushed in, but how did Zhang He get in?!

Jumping in on one leg?!

That's like a word!!

Let's not talk about standing on one leg for so long, does Zhang He still have the ability to do this, let's just say that this image of jumping and walking is so good-looking? !

Let people carry it in?!

I don't know if I think he Zhang He was seriously injured, and he can't walk on the ground anymore.

How demoralizing this is.

Therefore, Zhang He thought about it and decided that he was standing at the gate of Dachangji.

Ordered people to move their own handsome flags, surrounded by the guards and flag soldiers, Zhang He just stood at the door of the periphery of Dachangji, and came out with a commanding appearance, on the one hand, to stabilize the army's heart, on the other hand, Zhang He really didn't think that after breaking through the periphery of Dachangji, the internal defense of the Shu army would still resist.

It's actually the same as a siege.

When an army breaks through the city walls and opens the city gates, the defenders in the city generally break up or surrender, and there are not many actual examples of street fighting in these years.

After all, the war in these years is still a morale that pays attention to morale, one blow, and then decline, and when Feng Xi is killed, and the peripheral battlefield is occupied by the Wei army, it is impossible for the Shu army inside Dachangji not to be affected, and it is even very likely that it will be broken in one attack.

This is Zhang He's judgment of the internal defenders of Dachangji at the beginning.

But. The Wei army attacked twice, but was actually repelled by the defenders of Dachangji, which was a bit unexpected by Zhang He.

An attack was repulsed, probably because Zhang He was not in command at the front line, and the soldiers were also a little proud and underestimated the enemy, so the attack was unfavorable.

The second attack is repulsed, then it is really not a simple thing . This shows that at least the Shu army within Dachangji still has the determination and confidence to stick to it.

The third attack, absolutely can not let the Shu army repel, if the Shu army is repulsed, the morale of the Shu army that was lost by losing the outer defense line before may rise again with the success of this defense.

Therefore, Zhang He is sincerely pondering. Or, if you can't do it, you will really jump in on one leg?!

Although the posture is a little ugly and a bit embarrassing, it is better than delaying the fighter!!

(End of chapter)