In Wugong County, Zhang He was pacing back and forth, thinking about how to get out of the city to meet Wang Chang.
Zhang He knew very well what kind of general Zhang Xi was, and even Zhang He had guessed it. If he just sent out troops to respond, the five or six thousand Shu soldiers who were staying in the camp in front of Wugong County would never let him go. So easy.
Therefore, if Zhang He wants to get out of the city to respond, he must first get rid of the entanglement of this Shu army.
This is not easy, and Zhang He also needs to think carefully about how to use his troops.
At the same time, outside Wugong County, the Han army was encamped.
Zhang Xi led his troops to intercept Zhang He's rear army. Before leaving, he appointed Feng Xi as the remaining general in the camp.
This is very important to Feng Xi.
As a general who had just lost the battle two days ago, Feng Xi knew that this was another opportunity given to him by Zhang Xi. If he messed up this opportunity again, I am afraid Feng Xi would have to say goodbye to his military career in the future.
Although today's Han Dynasty also has some factions and interests, it is generally politically clean. If Feng Xi leaves the army in such a dishonorable way, no one will be willing to reuse him no matter where he is in the future.
Therefore, during this period, Feng Xi almost constantly sent out sentries and agents, day and night, to monitor the activities in Wugong County.
But there was still no movement in Wugong County.
Zhang Xi left the camp in the evening yesterday, and it was already after noon the next day. Calculating the time, if Zhang Xi's march goes well, he should have been able to contact Liu Yin and start preparing to encircle and suppress Zhang He's rear. Army.
If Zhang He didn't want his rear army to be surrounded and suppressed like this, then at this time, Zhang He should lead his troops out of the city to respond.
Unless Zhang He didn't want to respond? !
Does this old boy really believe that his rear army can break out of the siege of 13,000 people? !
This is obviously a bit unrealistic. Anyway, in Feng Xi's view, it is definitely unrealistic.
In this case, it must be Zhang He, the old boy, who is playing some tricks again.
But this time, Feng Xi learned the lesson from two days ago. He was really scouting and working closely, staring at the four gates of Wugong County without relaxing at all.
Of course, if Zhang He can really lead his troops to fly out of the sky or crawl out of the ground, then Feng Xi will accept his fate.
In fact, Zhang He does not have such ability. He has delayed sending troops until now. It is just Zhang He trying his best to get Feng Xi's mentality.
Today, Feng Xi is staying in the Shu army camp. Zhang He has already known this through detailed work. Zhang He also knows that this general is the general who was defeated by him two days ago.
In Zhang He's eyes, this enemy general named Feng Xi didn't even investigate the thirty miles around his camp. It's hard to say whether he is a fool or a reckless person. Such a person should have little patience. of.
Therefore, Zhang He kept delaying sending troops, which gave the enemy generals the illusion that he did not intend to send troops for rescue, and made the enemy troops relax their vigilance.
But it was obvious that as time passed by and in the afternoon, Zhang He could no longer hold on.
After noon, the scouts in the local camp continued to patrol. Basically, the scouts sent out by themselves would be entangled by the enemy's scouts less than ten miles away from the city. Obviously, the enemy general did not think that he was not worthy just because it had passed the afternoon. Will go out of town to meet you.
Well, this is a bit beyond Zhang He's expectation.
But no matter what, Zhang He will definitely go out of the city to meet Wang Chang. If time continues to delay like this, it will only be more detrimental to the Wei army.
So. Activate your backup plan.
It won't work if it doesn't start. According to the report from Tanma, the rear army led by Wang Chang is only about 20 miles outside Wugong County, but it has been completely blocked by Zhang Xi's troops.
If we don't respond, even if our rear army can break out, there won't be much immediate combat strength left. We still have to go to Wuzhangyuan.
Until now, time has always been Zhang He's biggest enemy.
Therefore, Zhang He left 500 men to defend the city together with the original 500 Wugong County garrison. He led 2,500 soldiers out of the east gate, seemingly going out of the city to meet Wang Chang's troops.
At this time, Feng Xi, who stayed in the camp, also noticed something strange at the east gate, and immediately organized his army to intercept it.
It's not that Feng Xi was still careless this time. After a defeat, Feng Xi was very afraid of Zhang He, but this time Feng Xi really had no choice.
The military order given by Zhang Xi was that once Zhang He left the city to meet him, Feng Xi would try his best to hold back Zhang He's troops. Therefore, even if Feng Xi knew that Zhang He might play tricks, since Zhang He left the city, Feng Xi had to send troops to hold him back. Live in Zhang He.
Otherwise, if someone sees you and doesn't come out, they will run away from the east gate. What's the point of chasing you back? !
Therefore, Feng Xi did guess that Zhang He might be playing tricks, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and stay vigilant as much as possible to deal with Zhang He's possible changes at any time.
But Feng Xi discovered that Zhang He had no sudden changes at all.
Feng Xi once imagined that Zhang He might pretend to leave from the east gate, but after leaving the city, he would suddenly change the direction of travel, come towards him, kill him and retreat, and then lead his troops to meet the rear army. This is what Feng Xi did to Zhang He. prediction.
But after Zhang He's army came out of the east gate, they headed directly to the east of the city regardless of whether there was any threat behind them. From the beginning, they were in a state of rapid march.
At this time, Feng Xi had no choice but to increase his speed, otherwise he would really be unable to catch up with this unit.
Therefore, Feng Xi also ordered to start a rapid march, trying to bite the enemy's tail as soon as possible and slow down the enemy's advance.
Just like this, one army was running and the other was chasing. When he was about five miles away from the city, Feng Xi was shocked to find that the Wei army suddenly changed its direction and came towards him.
Well, although the U-turn was a little late, it was still the same thing after all.
When Feng Xi saw the Wei army turning around, he immediately ordered his soldiers to suspend their march and organize defense on the spot according to the response method he had thought of before. Huh? !
Feng Xi was surprised to find that his soldiers could not even stop at this moment, let alone organize an effective defense.
Feng Xi's purpose was to bite the enemy, so he kept urging his soldiers to advance. The distance between the two sides was not too far.
But now, the enemy army suddenly changed from the rear to the front and rushed towards his own army. This distance was simply not enough for the soldiers led by Feng Xi to switch from pursuit to ground defense.
In other words, the soldiers led by Feng Xi did not have the quality to switch quickly.
The 2,500 men led by Zhang He were all elite members of the Forbidden Army. After all, these soldiers were better trained and organized. Although Zhang He suddenly ordered to turn around and kill the enemy, the Forbidden Army was temporarily at a loss as to what to do. Fortunately, their training was better. It is more organized and can be adjusted quickly.
But the more than 4,000 soldiers led by Feng Xi were all ordinary county soldiers. It was not easy for Feng Xi to keep the formation in order during the pursuit. It was simply impossible to suddenly change the formation in such a short period of time.
Therefore, Feng Xi could only watch helplessly as the Wei army charged into his front army, beating his soldiers back steadily.
If this continues, the soldiers will definitely be unable to withstand it, and will go from retreating to a complete collapse.
Once things reach that point, Feng Xi will inevitably be defeated again, and after this defeat, he will completely lose the opportunity to contain Zhang He.
Feng Xi obviously didn't want his military career to end like this, so Feng Xi also became ruthless.
He directly led his own bodyguards to the front line, and at the same time ordered the entire army not to shift into a defensive formation. It couldn't be turned around anyway, so it was better to attack directly with the entire army.
Doing this will certainly cause heavy casualties to our own army, but now we have no choice but to attack and delay the enemy for a while. Once defeated, that will be a fatal thing.
We can fight as long as we can and delay as long as we can.
Feng Xi's response was not beyond Zhang He's expectations. In fact, in Zhang He's plan, Feng Xi's most correct response should be to attack himself. This was the only chance to hold him back.
Changing the defensive formation like before was the real last resort.
But even so, Zhang He didn't feel that Feng Xi could cause him much trouble. In a small-scale battle involving thousands of people, Zhang He had strong confidence in the Forbidden Army. Feng Xi didn't have more than twice the military strength, so he couldn't even think of blocking the Wei Dynasty. The offensive of the Custodes.
Although it will take some time, this force will eventually be completely defeated, and then we can fully respond to Wang Chang's troops.
Note, Zhang He's wish is just to defeat Feng Xi's army.
Defeat this thing. It's really not too difficult. Just find a way to divide and surround the Shu army so that the general of the Shu army cannot effectively command his army. As casualties increase, the uncommanded part of the Shu army will themselves fell into chaos, which affected the entire Shu army on the battlefield.
At that time, Zhang He only needs to let his soldiers drive away this part of the defeated Shu army, and the remaining Shu army will also be defeated together.
And all this was basically accomplished when Feng Xi made mistakes in his early response. Wei Jun's attack quickly cut into Feng Xi Jun's front army, dividing and surrounding Feng Xi Jun's front.
At this time, the Wei army was fully attacking the front army that Feng Xi could not directly command.
And Feng Xi is not an idiot. The situation on the battlefield has become so obvious. Feng Xi definitely cannot sit back and watch his front army collapse. The adjustment he made is to use the remaining soldiers to re-open the connection with the front army, so that Your own troops will not be defeated quickly.
But, it's not easy.
There is one thing to say, Feng Xi has done a very good job, at least in Zhang He's view, Feng Xi cannot be allowed to continue attacking back and forth on the battlefield with his personal guards.
If Feng Xi is allowed to be so connected on the battlefield, it is really possible for Feng Xi to reorganize the army. In this way, even if some soldiers can be defeated, there is no way to directly defeat the entire army.
Although this will not prevent Zhang He from winning in the end, Zhang He's purpose is not to compete with Feng Xi here.
At this time, time is Zhang He's biggest enemy. He cannot allow anything to happen beyond the scope of his plan.
Therefore, Zhang He ordered the front army to concentrate its forces to specifically intercept Feng Xi, and be sure to restrict Feng Xi's scope of activities. The other soldiers concentrated their efforts to attack the Shu army that was still divided and surrounded.
Strive to defeat these Shu troops as soon as possible, and then drive the remnants of the Shu troops towards the rear army to break up the Shu army's formation.
Soon, Feng Xi also discovered Zhang He's changes. There were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, and the space for movement was getting smaller and smaller. Feng Xi was already very clear about Zhang He's plan.
By this time, Feng Xi had no other option.
He is entangled, and the rear army has no one to command. Once the front army collapses, the entire army will collapse involuntarily. Even if he can choose to retreat and gather the remaining troops, his delaying mission will most likely fail.
This was something Feng Xi didn't want to see, so Feng Xi made a bold decision.
Feng Xi no longer tried to connect with the soldiers around him, but led his gathered more than 500 people to kill directly in the direction of Zhang He.
This move made Zhang He angry, are you the only one who wants to imitate me and rush into battle? !
Do you really think I can no longer lift a gun? ! ! !
(End of chapter)
