Before the army, Cao Zhen gave a lecture before the army, mobilized the morale of the army, and inspired morale, Cao Zhen did quite perfectly through a series of arrangements.

Now the morale of the Wei army has been fully reactivated, so that even if a small number of troops are used to intercept the pursuit of the Shu thieves, the chances of victory can be improved a lot.

Of course, Cao Zhen also knows that today's lecture actually has pros and cons.

In a short period of time, Cao Zhen could indeed force the soldiers to work hard by confessing that there was a shortage of food and grass, but if Tongguan could not be captured before the third day, after the food and grass were completely exhausted on the third day, this army would definitely mutiny.

Therefore, Cao Zhen is also gambling, using this way to improve the morale and combat will of the soldiers, in exchange for the possibility of capturing Tongguan and opening up a retreat.

After the lecture was completed, Cao Zhen did not give the soldiers a chance to think more, and immediately ordered the whole army to be drawn, 20,000 people under the leadership of Wang Chang to storm Tongguan, and the previous 5,000 people followed him to intercept the attack of the Shu thieves.

There is no way, this kind of mouth cannon incentive also has shortcomings, it can't leave room for reverie for the soldiers, and the more you think about it, the easier it is to have an accident, so quickly send people to the battlefield, and when you are desperate for life and death, you have to have your life to survive.

In this regard, Cao Zhen is still relatively "calm".

And Zhang Xi here. Last night, Su Ze, who had been hurrying for almost a month, took his 15,000 Liangzhou infantry and finally joined the Yongzhou soldiers led by Zhang Xi.

Su breathed a sigh of relief. It's finally time to catch up with the battle, and now I won't be complained about by the entire Liangzhou Legion.

Zhang Xi was also very fortunate for the timely arrival of the Liangzhou Army. He is worried that the next troops will be insufficient, and it will be difficult to carry out the rescue of Tongguan.

There is no way, yesterday there was a battle during the day, although on the surface, it was the Wei army that was defeated, but the Han army here, in fact, did not take too much advantage.

In terms of cavalry, under the command of the old general Zhao Yun, it can be said that it was a complete victory, and the combat ability of the Wei cavalry was defeated at once, but in infantry warfare, Zhang Xi and Cao Zhen actually fought a defeat for both.

Not only did the losses of troops be serious, but the coaches of both sides almost died directly, and in the end, they threw rats at each other, which saved their lives.

After returning to the camp, Zhang Xi recounted the retreating troops and found that the troops were seriously insufficient.

Although Zhao Yun successfully relieved the siege of the front army, and at the same time collected the cavalry that was caught in the chaotic battle, the infantry who finally retreated to the camp was only more than 6,000 people, and the cavalry was only more than 3,800 people. Combined, there are just over 10,000 soldiers.

And the Cao Zhen army on the opposite side, even though the casualties were greater than those of the Han army, but the other side had many people, and the losses began.

With such a small number of troops, Zhang Xi doubted that after the war started tomorrow, Cao Zhen would ignore Tongguan first, directly take encirclement and suppression actions against himself, solve the troubles of the back road first, and then concentrate his forces on besieging Tongguan.

It's not impossible.

Zhang Xi was worried about this, but the military envoy came to report that Su Ze led the troops only twenty miles away from the main battlefield.

As soon as Zhang Xi heard this, he directly asked the military envoy to give Su Ze an order, asking him to take the risk of rushing overnight, and he must come to the meeting as soon as possible. In this way, there will be enough soldiers to make suitable arrangements for tomorrow's battle.

Then, early in the morning, the Wei army was noisy and shouted, and a big battle came out, which startled Zhang Xi.

hurriedly sent scouts to investigate, only to learn that Cao Zhen didn't know what tricks he had done, which aroused the Wei army's morale. Now the Wei army is divided into two, about half of the soldiers are defending in the direction of the Han army camp, and the other half of the soldiers are set off to attack Tongguan.

Zhang Xi pondered this posture. Hurriedly called Zhao Yun and Su Ze, and also began to arrange combat missions.

In fact, when Su Ze led his troops to Zhang Xi's camp overnight last night, Zhang Xi discussed with Su Ze and Zhao Yun what kind of offensive to take today.

After discussing and discussing, I finally felt that we must break through the interception of the Wei army as soon as possible and send reinforcements into Tongguan to support Wei Yan.

If he doesn't go, Wei Yanke will really die in Tongguan.

Not to mention Wei Yan's death, after the loss of Tongguan, these more than 30,000 soldiers retreated into the pass, which will also have very big variables for the next Northern Expedition, which is very unfavorable.

Therefore, if you want to encircle and suppress this Wei army, the prerequisite is to hold Tongguan, that is, you must find a way to send reinforcements to Tongguan.

In the past, this matter was not easy to do, because Zhang Xi's troops were insufficient, and he was not sure that he could break through Cao Wei's 40,000-strong interception line.

But now, Cao Wei's cavalry has been completely lost, and the infantry has been reduced to about 35,000 people, and himself, from a total strength of 15,000 at the beginning, to a total strength of 25,000 people, the gap between the two sides has narrowed too much.

Now, Zhang Xi thinks that he is still sure that he can break through the Wei army's interception and send people to Tongguan.

So. Get out of the camp and go to war.

When the two armies faced each other, Zhang Xi was stunned to find that Cao Zhen actually gave him a big gift - the Wei army that came to intercept his attack was only 15,000 people.

In other words, Cao Zhen still put the bulk of his forces in the direction of attacking Tongguan, and intercepted his own troops much less than expected.

In this way, Zhang Xi has more confidence that he can break through and forge ahead and support Wei Yan.

However, Zhang Xi's personality is always cautious first, even if he sees a considerable breakthrough, he will not be too careless, or according to the plan, Zhao Yunxian led 3,800 cavalry, detoured to the right flank of the Wei army's defense line, and killed the enemy with cavalry.

This time, the cavalry was still not the main attack, but harassment, and the Wei army was the main dispatch.

After all, yesterday it was Zhao Yun who led the cavalry to kill all sides on the battlefield, Zhang Xi didn't believe it, and in the face of Zhao Yun's cavalry attacking again, the Wei army would not take strict precautions.

Of course, it would be better if, like yesterday, the troops were divided again to block Zhao Yun's cavalry attack.

But this time, Zhang Xi miscalculated.

In the face of Zhao Yun's harassment and cavalry shooting of the flank Wei army, Cao Zhen was not moved at all, and asked the flank infantry to raise their shields to defend, but they just did not leave the defense line for half a step.

It is quite a bit of a shield defense, fighting casualties and delaying time.

Now, Zhao Yun is also a little out of line.

The 3,800 cavalry can indeed kill and injure the enemy by relying on cavalry shooting, but the enemy has the means to raise a shield to defend, and the lethality is really limited, and a round and forth cavalry shooting can only cause dozens of casualties.

Grinding slowly is no problem, but. Zhao Yun's purpose was to mobilize the soldiers on the flanks of the Wei army to adjust the deployment of troops and create conditions for Zhang Xi's frontal assault.

Wei Jun was beaten like this and didn't fight back, but it was a posture of not moving, what could Zhao Yun do?!

Assault?!

It's not impossible to assault, but the cavalry is facing the infantry defense anyway, although it can effectively kill and injure the infantry, its own losses will not be small. In the first level of the spear formation, you have to find a way to break through.

Zhao Yun only had 3,800 cavalry left, and if he had been using the tactics of assault today, it would be hard to say whether he would have 3,000 cavalry after returning to the camp.

Once the cavalry is not large, the effect of the assault will decrease exponentially.

Seeing that Zhao Yun's flank operations were useless, Zhang Xi also knew Cao Zhen's plan.

It is to fight hard, defend hard, and fight to block the number of casualties to block Zhang Xi's support to Tongguan or return to the old road of yesterday's battle.

So what else can I do, just like yesterday, hard.

Even though Wei Yan's old man is hateful and his popularity is poor, he can't die without helping!!

Zhang Xi immediately ordered the whole army to press and attack!!

And this time, Zhang Xi is no longer in command of the overall battle by himself, after yesterday's battle, Zhang Xi also left a hand - he divided the 20,000 foot soldiers, and led 10,000 people to attack Cao Zhen's frontal Chinese army, and let Su Ze lead 10,000 people to attack the right flank of Cao Zhen's army.

In this way, even if Cao Zhen seizes the opportunity to break through the Chinese army again, then he can retreat to Su Ze to seek protection, so that he will not have to bet on whether Cao Zhen will dare to die with him.

Moreover, from yesterday's battle, Zhang Xi seems to have understood one thing - the key breakthrough does not seem to be of much use to the Wei army in front of him.

There is only one point of attack in the key breakthrough, and Wang Chang, who attacked Tongguan in the rear, can observe the changes in the battlefield at any time, and once the battle is unfavorable, the siege troops can be recalled and the rapid rescue is in place. Fools can know where your offense is focused, so you can't stop it?!

But now, the three lines are attacking at the same time, and Wang Chang must guard against the possibility of the third line being broken through at the same time.

And as long as there is a line that can break through the defense and rush to the main battlefield of Tongguan, it is possible to enter Tongguan and support Wei Yan before Wang Chang reacts.

In the past, Zhang Xi didn't dare to play like this, because the troops were not enough, so he could only adopt the method of key breakthroughs.

But now, Zhang Xi has enough troops to use this method of warfare.

Yesterday, 10,000 Yongzhou soldiers almost broke through against Cao Zhen's Chinese army, if it wasn't for Wang Chang's quick reinforcement, maybe now Zhang Xi and Zhao Yun have been standing on the tower of Tongguan City with Wei Yan, sitting and watching the Wei army attack the city.

Now the two armies and horses are attacking with 10,000 soldiers each, and at the same time, Zhang Xi found that the new Liangzhou army seems to be very full of fighting spirit, it depends on what you Cao Zhen does!

Yesterday, it was Cao Zhen who confidently blocked the attack of this Zhang Xi. And today, it was Zhang Xi's turn to confidently command his soldiers and launch a siege on the Wei army.

And then bar. Zhang Xi is the same as Cao Zhen yesterday, the more he fights, the more he realizes that things seem to be different from what he thinks.

It is true that in the first battle of the Liangzhou Army, the will to fight was very high, and it was always pressing the Wei army to attack, but the actual combat effect was not very good.

One reason is that Zhang Xi is not very accustomed to the offensive routines of the Liangzhou infantry soldiers, and he does not cooperate with the original Yongzhou soldiers under him very well, and wasted a lot of opportunities.

And another reason. Zhang Xi found that the resistance of the Wei army was very tenacious, so tenacious that it was completely fatal.

Zhang Xi was really puzzled.

It's only been one night, what did Cao Zhen eat for this group of Wei soldiers?! What did you drink?!

Stimulants don't have this effect, do they?!

(End of chapter)