Zhuge Liang was brewing a counterattack on the right, while on the left, Feng Yi, Zhang Xi was defending Chongquan County.

Less than three days after Zhang Xi sent Hao Zhao's three generals and put them in charge of returning to Gaoling County, Chongquan County was besieged by an army led by Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen did not hesitate at all this time, arrived in Chongquan a little later, and spent two days building siege equipment, and then directly launched the siege regardless of whether these siege equipment were complete or not.

Cao Zhen also had no choice, even if he sent Wang Chang to lead the cavalry to harass on the flank, Wang Chang still did not block the retreat of General Hao Zhao.

Although Wang Chang took advantage of the speed advantage of the cavalry to pursue and defeat the thousand-man team led by Xiang Zhong and Hu Fen, the actual killing effect was not great, and he still let the two retreat to the direction of Gaoling with hundreds of routs.

As for Hao Zhao, after Wang Chang defeated Xiang Chong and Hu Fen's two thousand-strong troops, he had no time to pursue Hao Zhao anymore, and he didn't dare to lead the cavalry too far away from Chongquan, for fear that this was Zhang Xi's plan to blossom in the trees, so he could only give up the pursuit after defeating Xiang Chong and Hu Fenjun, and rushed back to the flank of Chongquan County.

Cao Zhen's main army was blocked in Chongquan, and Wang Chang's mobile troops did not dare to go too far, which caused Cao Zhen to worry that Zhang Xi would withdraw his troops in this way of concealment, so he had to immediately launch a siege to completely contain the main force of the Shu thieves.

Therefore, in two days, Cao Zhen's troops only had time to build dozens of hook ladders and two rushing vehicles, which were obviously not enough, but Cao Zhen still ordered the whole army to attack the city.

Zhang Xi, on the other hand, needed to hold Chongquan County with 25,000 men to deal with the attack of Cao Zhen's 50,000 soldiers.

In terms of the comparison of offensive and defensive forces alone, Zhang Xi occupies the advantage of Chongquan City defense, although the strength is weak, and he is not sure that he can repel the enemy army, but it is not a problem to hold on for a period of time.

Cao Zhen didn't expect that he could really capture Chongquan, he just wanted to delay Zhang Xi's headquarters in Chongquan County to create conditions for Niu Jin to cut off Zhang Xi's logistics supply line.

And Niu Jin did not disappoint Cao Zhen in the end.

On the fourth day after the Chongquan offensive began, Niu Jin had already led 15,000 cavalry to cross the right Fufeng and enter the left Feng Yi, and according to the original plan, directly penetrated the junction of Chongquan and Gaoling, and directly cut off the connection between Chongquan and Gaoling with the mobility of the cavalry.

Fifteen thousand cavalry, the threat on the plain battlefield is too great.

Although cavalry cannot be used to siege cities, cavalry has the advantage of speed and is good at cutting through encirclements. You don't need to attack the city, as long as you cut off the supplies around you, how long can the Shu thieves trapped in the lonely city defend?!

Under normal circumstances, either Zhang Xi, who was in Chongquan, chose to attack with heavy troops, break through the cavalry blockade, and reopen his supply channel, or Hu Zun, who was in Gaoling, tried to break through the cavalry blockade and send the necessary supplies to Chongquan.

But these two methods, whether it is Zhang Xi or Hu Zun, cannot be done.

Without him, there is a serious shortage of troops.

Chongquan, which was guarded by Zhangxi, had to face the siege of Cao Zhen's 50,000 troops, and it was not easy to hold Chongquan, where would there be extra troops to reopen the supply channel.

Besides, Niu Jin led 15,000 cavalry, and Zhang Xi even counted the reconnaissance cavalry, and the cavalry was less than 500 people, how could he break through such a cavalry blockade.

As for Hu Zun, it is even more nonsense, the troops at hand, including Hao Zhao and the other three generals who withdrew to Gaoling, are no more than 5,000 people.

Now Hu Zun's biggest worry is that Cao Zhen will choose to divide his troops to attack Gaoling, once Gaoling is lost, even if Zhang Xi can hold Chongquan, it will be meaningless.

Therefore, Hu Zun's current choice is to stick to one option, and he can't be expected to find a way to break through Niu Jin's cavalry blockade.

Such an overall situation finally made Cao Zhen breathe a sigh of relief, and to some extent, he was a little more energetic again.

Over the years, Cao Zhen has been beaten by others, from Longshan to Guanzhong, from Guanzhong to Guannei, and some of the fame that he has finally accumulated has been almost exhausted in the successive defeats in previous years.

Now, this Zhang Xi has finally been blocked in Zuo Fengyi, completely cutting off the back road. The next thing Cao Zhen had to do was to continue to put pressure on Zhang Xi, not to give Zhang Xi a chance to break through, and finally completely surround Zhang Xi to death in Zuo Fengyi.

As long as he defeats Zhang Xi, a famous Shu thief, then he Cao Zhen can not only regain his reputation, but also attack all the way to recapture Guanzhong and even the entire Yongliang.

This is not impossible, Zhang Xi himself is the assassin of Yongzhou, and he is also the actual leader of the Yongzhou military and government, as long as he is defeated, the entire Yongzhou will definitely have no intention of fighting.

According to the detailed report, Chang'an has almost been evacuated, so when the soldiers are approaching the city, Cao Zhen does not believe that Jiang Wan and Chen Yi in Chang'an City will choose to continue to resist.

Now Cao Zhen has begun to imagine what kind of reward he will enjoy after he takes back Guanzhong and even Yongliang Erzhou in the future, and returns to the dynasty in victory.

At this time, Zhang Xi did not have Cao Zhen's good intentions.

Although Zhang Xi saw through Cao Zhen's plan in advance, the time to see through it was too short, and no matter how much Zhang Xi made adjustments and arrangements, he would not be able to mobilize more grain, grass and ordnance to Chongquan County.

Now that the connection between Chongquan County and Gaoling County has been completely severed, Zhang Xi does not have enough troops to reopen the passage, so he can only rely on the existing grain, grass and ordnance in Chongquan County to fight the Wei army.

At this time, Chongquan County, although it has not reached the end of the road, but according to the development of this trend, Zhang Xi has calculated that in about another month, the military will collapse due to lack of supplies.

A month's time, whether it's long or not, if everything goes well, Zhang Xi feels that maybe he doesn't need to stick to it for so long.

However, if there is a case in the middle, Zhao Yun can't quickly lead troops to help, then Zhang Xi has to think about how to hold on for a longer time.

Therefore, Zhang Xi was preparing for Chongquan County's insistence in accordance with the operational policy of waiting for reinforcements.

Not only must the consumption of military food be strictly controlled, but also the consumption of ordnance also needs to be paid more attention, especially some equipment for defending the city, Zhang Xi even mobilized in advance, ready to demolish the house and defend the city.

But even so, under the onslaught of the superior forces of the Wei army, Zhang Xi and Wei Yan were also very hard to defend.

For the defense of Chongquan County, Zhang Xi personally commanded, Wei Yan was responsible for the most important south gate and east gate, and Zhang Yi was responsible for the relatively easy west gate and north gate, and Wei Yan's general Wang Shuang led Zhang Xi to deliberately divide the five thousand soldiers to use it for assault in the city.

In this matter, Wang Shuanggan is suitable, he is the best at charging into battle, going out of the city at a critical moment, burning the enemy's siege equipment, and is the most suitable person.

In this way, in the initial defensive battle of Chongquan, although the back road was cut off and besieged, under the command of Zhang Xi, Chongquan's defense line was still quite orderly.

Cao Zhen was also quite surprised by this.

For a long time, Zhang Xi has given people the feeling that he has been the pioneer of Shu thieves all year round. When a pioneer is a pioneer, in addition to machine changes, the most important thing must be good at attacking.

Cao Zhen always thought that Zhang Xi was the kind of general who attached importance to offense, but now that he looks, this Zhang Yuanchang is actually good at defense? !

It's really a genius in the world.

Hawkers, this can't be blamed on Cao Zhen, after all, the world's recognized battle of Zhang Xi's fame was the battle of Sichuan, probably except for Zhou Yu, no one remembered that Zhang Xi had fought a defensive battle in Exian County, and there were 3,000 troops to force back the attack of Zhou Yu's 20,000 army.

In fact, Zhang Xi started on defense.

Cao Zhen was surprised that Zhang Xi was good at guarding, but considering Zhang Xi's reputation, this was not too surprising to Cao Zhen.

The person who really surprised Cao Zhen was actually Wang Shuang.

Why didn't he find out back then, this Wang Shuang could be so fierce?!

Wang Shuang is indeed promoted by Cao Zhen, but in Cao Zhen's eyes, this Wang Shuang is just quite brave, but his character is not good, and he tends to be a disciple of the flames.

Such a person, Cao Zhen is willing to give him the opportunity to guard Meixian, which can be regarded as reusing him.

But now, Cao Zhen found that he really underestimated this Wang Shuang.

In the nearly ten days of launching the siege, Wang Shuang went out of the city to fight twice, and each time he completed his mission, leading his troops out of the city to rush and kill, breaking up the protective soldiers of the siege equipment, and burning most of the siege equipment, which once forced Cao Zhen to suspend the attack for a day and rebuild the siege equipment.

This is even more important, what is even worse is that after the first time he was on guard against Wang Shuang's martial arts, Cao Zhen once ordered Han De to personally lead the troops to protect the siege equipment siege equipment, but Wang Shuang went out of the city for the second time to fight, facing the guard troops led by Han De himself, under a burst of killing, he easily tore open the crack and burned the siege equipment.

Forget it, the really scary thing is that Han De faced Wang Shuang's sudden formation, and felt that his martial arts were not weak, so he actually launched a counter-assault formation against Wang Shuang. As a result, Han De himself was slashed and fell off his horse by Wang Shuang.

If it weren't for the protection of armor, and Han De himself dodged in time when he saw the situation, now Han De would not have suffered a slight injury to his arm, but his body would have been in a different place.

Han De's martial arts, Cao Zhen knows very well, far above himself. Such a martial art actually didn't even last a round in front of Wang Shuang, which really surprised Cao Zhen.

This is a first-class fierce general with the ability to kill in battle!!

In these years, the fierce generals who have the ability to kill the generals in battle can be counted on two hands, and the generals who really have this record are only Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Pang De, Lu Bu and a few other people, Wang Shuang almost did it.

I knew that this product was so fierce, and I should have reused it when I was under my command. Now it's okay, it's cheap for nothing.

(End of chapter)