Zhang Xi's plan is like this.
Let Kou Feng leave the city first to attract attention.
The first and second time out of the city were to tease the enemy generals surrounding the south gate, and also to make the enemy relax their vigilance, or simply to anger them.
The result was surprisingly effective. Ling Tong was not only angered, but to Zhang Xi's surprise, he made enough way for the Kou Feng troops to advance.
To be honest, if the number was not only 500, but 5,000, Kou Feng would not attack Ling Tong's main formation at all, but would directly attack Zhou Yu's rear army and coordinate with Wei Yan to defeat the enemy.
But unfortunately, Kou Feng only has 500 people, so he can only act honestly according to Zhang Xi's plan.
First of all, Ling Tong's formation needs to be disrupted, otherwise it will not attract Zhou Yu's attention.
The best way to disrupt Ling Tong's formation is to attack Ling Tong's main formation.
Of course, the risk of doing so was very high and the success rate was very low. Therefore, just in case, Zhang Xi gave all five of his guards to Kou Feng and asked him to use them as sharp knives.
It was these fifty people who, relying on the cooperation of the Yuanyang Formation, easily broke through the defense of Ling Tong's soldiers, forced back Ling Tong's general flag, and successfully created chaos in Ling Tong's army.
When Ling Tong's army was in chaos, Kou Feng immediately attacked Zhou Yu's rear army.
If Ling Tongjun is in chaos, Zhou Yu will definitely notice it, and he will definitely not leave it alone.
But Zhou Yu would definitely not become panicked because of this matter, let alone give up attacking Wei Yan's camp. Therefore, his biggest response possibility was to let the rear army change its formation to meet the enemy.
After all, Zhou Yu had a large number of people, and it would not take more than 10,000 people to attack a camp. The remaining people were basically encirclement formations arranged to prevent Wei Yan from breaking through.
Zhang Xi's headache is these encirclement formations. With the strength of Hubei City's troops, it is indeed very difficult to break through these encirclement formations and reach out to Wei Yan.
But now because of Kou Feng's attack, Gan Ning adjusted the formation of the rear army, gathered his soldiers and prepared to attack Kou Feng, which caused a gap in the encirclement formation.
At this time, Zhang Xi personally led 300 people, marched along the tidal flats of the Yangtze River, cut through the gap, and lit beacon smoke to let Wei Yan break through to the east gate of Hubei City.
As soon as Wei Yan saw the smoke burning on the city wall, he immediately began to organize the breakout troops. It only took him a stick of incense to organize his team, and then he left a team behind and took the lead, rushing to the east. city gate.
Of course Zhou Yu also saw the smoke at the top of the city, but Zhou Yu subconsciously believed that this was an order from the city to the camp defenders, asking them to break out in the direction of Kou Feng's reinforcements. Therefore, Zhou Yu strengthened the defense in that direction of Kou Feng, only to find that , Wei Yan's breakout direction was not the south gate of E City, but the east gate of E City.
After such a delay, it was already too late for Zhou Yu to adjust his troop deployment.
Wei Yan is also brave and worthy of being the top star of this era.
He led his troops in front, personally opened the way, and led his troops to break out of the encirclement.
After gathering Zhang Xi's team of 300 people, Wei Yan felt that it was not enough, so he asked Zhang Xi to lead the soldiers who escaped from the camp back to the city first, while he took Zhang Xi to bring the 300 people to support him, and then turned around and charged in again. The enemy formation responded to the soldiers who had been arranged to break off the rear, and then he personally broke off the rear, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to Hubei City under the cover of crossbows and bows and arrows on the city wall.
As for Kou Feng, he led his men along the city wall and ran back to the south gate safely under the cover of the crossbows and archers on the wall.
This rescue was actually very risky and quite lucky.
The first is whether Kou Feng can successfully defeat Ling Tong and attract Zhou Yu's attention.
If Kou Feng couldn't do this, everything would be out of the question.
The second is whether Wei Yan can seize the opportunity for Zhou Yu's army to mobilize troops and fight out of the encirclement. If he can't fight out, then even if Zhang Xi goes to respond, 300 people are not enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
Third, this is the first time that Zhang Xi personally leads troops out of the city to fight. If he is not careful, his life will be lost.
But fortunately, God is on Zhang Xi's side this time.
Kou Feng not only succeeded in irritating Ling Tong, but Ling Tong even "cooperated" to the point of actively giving up Kou Feng's attack path, which made it much easier for Kou Feng to attack Ling Tong's main formation.
Later, when Gan Ning mobilized his soldiers to gather in formation, he actually released the encirclement towards the east gate of Hubei City, allowing Zhang Xi to pass through the tidal flats along the river outside the east gate without any danger, approaching the direction of Wei Yan's camp. , creating extremely good conditions for supporting Wei Yan.
War is sometimes like this. Before the war, you can make many arrangements and consider various conditions and reactions. But when the war actually breaks out, all the general can do is adapt to the situation and then let nature take its course.
This time, God favored Zhang Xi and created excellent rescue conditions for Zhang Xi, which made the rescue a near miss.
Therefore, Kou Feng and Wei Yan didn't have much reaction after returning to the city. It took Zhang Xi a long time to calm down. It was too dangerous and too lucky.
Next time something like this happens again, I won’t even beat Zhang Xi to death again. I was a little unlucky, so I’ll explain it today.
Zhang Xi was in shock, and Zhou Yu, the handsome guy, was furious.
Good guy, really good guy.
Zhou Lang, who has been in the east of the Yangtze River for so long, was actually fooled by a little city guard under the E County city today with a trick of making noises in the east and attacking in the west!
When Wei Yan broke through to the east gate of Hubei City, and there were people there to respond, Zhou Yu knew that the charging troops coming out of the south gate were just a cover, and he was completely plotted.
Although thinking about it afterwards, Zhou Yu also felt that this strategy was not too subtle, and it was just a combination of various luck factors that made it successful. But this feeling was very unpleasant.
In the past, he used tricks to fool others, but now, he was tricked by others.
But fortunately, although his opponent took away the soldiers in the camp outside the city this time, his goal has been achieved. The supporting troops outside Hubei City have been removed, and Jiangdong Army has not suffered any major losses. Zhou Yu's calmness is still some.
Now that this is the case, there is no point in being upset, let alone attacking the city directly in anger. This is what ordinary people do.
Zhou Yu sent an order to withdraw his troops and return to camp, and then spent another two days supervising the construction of siege equipment again in preparation for the second siege.
Without the support of the camp outside the city this time, Zhou Yu wanted to see what ability the city defender had to stop his own siege equipment.
After supervising the construction of the siege equipment, Zhou Yu remained calm and began to command the army for the second siege.
But now Zhang Xi really has no choice.
He now particularly hopes that a person named Huo Jun will suddenly appear next to him. If not Hao Zhao, it will be OK.
Speaking of Hao Zhao and Zhang Xi, they started to feel resentful again. Why didn't you think of bringing a few barrels of soybean oil over? !
As long as you have a few barrels of soybean oil in hand, isn't it a matter of minutes to burn a few ladders and rush cars? !
Now it's better, we can only take the regular route of defending the city and fight to the death on the city wall.
Although Wei Yan's supporting troops were returned, the number of soldiers who followed Wei Yan out of the siege and returned to E City was only five or six hundred. Including the original less than 1,000 soldiers in Zhangxi City, the total number was only There were about 1,500 defenders of the city.
The Jiangdong Army attacking from the opposite side not only had siege equipment, but also about 15,000 men.
The enemy is ten times stronger, with no response from the outside and no reinforcements from the inside. From a military point of view, it is simply a inevitable defeat.
Unless the person leading the army is named Huo Jun or Hao Zhao.
Anyway, Zhang Xi now feels that if he can hold on for more than ten days, it is considered a great achievement.
Zhang Xi really couldn't imagine how Huo Jun could hold on for more than a year with a few hundred men, facing the siege of tens of thousands of people, and finally be able to counterattack.
One day, after just one day of defending the city, Zhang Xi's mouth began to bubble in a hurry.
In a city defense battle, although the defenders are protected by the city wall, it does not mean that the defenders will not suffer casualties.
After this day's defense, only about 40 Echeng defenders were killed, but more than 200 were injured. The ratio of the number of injured was actually higher than during the field battle, reaching an astonishing one to five.
Although most of the soldiers have minor non-fatal injuries, you can't continue to drive injured soldiers up the city wall to fight. At any rate, you have to let them recuperate for a few days and recover before they can continue fighting.
Fighting with injuries can easily cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers, which may lead to mutiny, and then the city should not be defended.
Fortunately, Echeng was a small city, and Wei Yan's supporting troops returned to the city, which also gave Zhang Xi the possibility to rotate the guards. He removed the wounded to rest and reorganized the defensive forces on the four walls.
But this won't last long.
If we calculate based on the probability of injuring more than 200 people every day, it will only take about seven or eight days for everyone in the Echeng defenders to be injured.
Zhang Xi was even worried that he would not be able to survive that time. As long as more than half of the injured were injured, the morale of the entire E city defenders would drop to zero. By then, E city might be lost at any time.
Zhang Xi was so worried that he tried his best to think of a solution.
One is to think about what other methods can be used to defend the city, and the other is to ask Wei Yan if he has any good ideas.
But Wei Yan didn't have a good idea. He told Zhang Xi straightforwardly that now was a stage of defending and fighting for casualties. The competition was about who had stronger willpower, the attacker or the defender. There was no way out.
As for Zhang Xi’s worry about all players being injured in seven or eight days, Wei Yan felt that Zhang Xi was overthinking.
Putting aside the fact that war is not arithmetic, let’s talk about it: Can the Jiangdong Army on the opposite side really maintain such a high-intensity siege frequency for seven or eight days? !
The opponent is also a human being and will suffer casualties, and as the attacker, the casualties will only be greater than those of the defender.
A continuous attack for seven or eight days would certainly cause heavy casualties to the Echeng defenders, but the price Jiangdong Army would have to pay would probably be at least three times that of the Echeng defenders, or even more.
It depends on whether Jiangdong's army is willing to lose thousands of troops in the small city of Echeng.
You must know that there is Lu County behind E City, Xiling reinforcements may arrive at any time, and the Jiangxia Navy is not completely without the strength to fight. Is Jiangdong Army willing to delay under E City for so long?
(End of chapter)
