As soon as Zhang He heard that Zhang Xi only brought a thousand men, he rushed in with light troops to outflank him, and his idea suddenly became active.
If, that is to say, if. If the thousand-man army led by Zhang Xi could be defeated in one fell swoop, or even, if luck was better, Zhang Xi could be killed on the spot. Then wouldn't it be possible for the Wuzhangyuan sneak attack plan to revive? !
This temptation was really too big, and Zhang He couldn't help but think about it. At the same time, he repeatedly persuaded himself to calm down and think about the pros and cons of doing so.
Zhang He forced himself to calm down, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that this tactic still didn't work.
There is no other reason. Today's various conditions are not good for him.
First, Zhang He did not have enough troops to fight Zhang Xi in a decisive battle.
Today, Zhang He only has more than 300 soldiers at his disposal, while the army brought by Zhang Xi has 1,000 people. No matter how powerful the combat effectiveness of Cao Wei's Central Forbidden Army is, they cannot defeat one against three.
Go to the mountain road to mobilize troops? !
Zhang He had also thought about this, but it would take at least half an hour to mobilize troops on the mountain road, and Zhang Xi's thousand-man army could reach Dachang Market in as little as a quarter of an hour at the fastest and only two quarters of an hour at the slowest. .
Zhang He wanted to fight a surprise attack and defeat, not a back-and-forth tug-of-war, so there was no time to mobilize troops.
Second, the terrain near Dachangji is also quite unfavorable for Zhang He to launch military operations.
Dachangji is too small, but it is blocked in the middle of the mountains, making it impossible to get around.
If he wants to fight Zhang Xi's thousand-man army, Zhang He must first lead his troops through Dachangji and reach the small road south of Dachangji before he can directly confront Zhang Xi. Otherwise, it will just be back to the situation of fighting back and forth in Dachangji. .
At this time, Zhang He did have the conditions to pass Dachangji.
Zhang He's current location is northwest of Dachangji, and the direction Zhang Xi led his troops is to the south of Dachangji.
Now, Zhang He has basically controlled the periphery of Dachangji. Only part of the center of Fang City has not been captured. It may take time to mobilize troops from the periphery of Fang City. Too many troops may take time, but it still doesn't take much to mobilize hundreds of soldiers. Time.
But the problem is that the three hundred Shu troops in the center of Fang City have not been cleared out. Although they are unable to launch an attack for a while, if they suddenly attack when the war is stalemate, Zhang Heke will face that his retreat will be cut off. It's a situation where two sides are attacking.
This use of troops is really too risky.
Of course, the last and most important deciding factor was that Zhang He was injured and could not rush into the battle himself.
If Zhang He was not injured at this time, then Zhang He might have taken this risk.
Zhang He could have taken his remaining 300 elite imperial troops and used himself as an arrow to launch a charge against Zhang Xi's Chinese army while Zhang Xi had just arrived at Dachangji with his troops and was not yet firmly established.
This is not without a chance of success. After all, it is impossible for Zhang Xi to know the specific battle situation in Dachangji today. Maybe Zhang Xi thought that the Wei army was blocked in the northwest of Dachangji and could not get through at all.
Zhang He had the conditions to take the enemy by surprise and launch a surprise attack.
Moreover, Zhang He was confident in the combat prowess of his soldiers and his own martial arts, and he was even more confident in Zhang Xi's martial arts.
Although Zhang Xi is a famous general, he has always been famous for his strategic tactics. It is rumored that he has no martial arts skills at all and would have trouble killing a chicken. As long as such a person is given a chance to fight at close quarters, Zhang He can guarantee that Zhang Xi will survive. Just one move.
But now, Zhang He looked at his legs, especially the stinging pain coming from the arrow wound in the crook of his right knee. He could only feel a sense of despair.
Without personally leading the troops into the formation, relying on more than 300 soldiers to attack the 1,000 soldiers brought by Zhang Xi would only be a surprise at best, leaving Zhang Xi in a hurry. It would be too difficult to kill Zhang Xi in one battle. Difficult.
After thinking about it, the possibility of failure is higher than the possibility of success. Such a decision would be irresponsible to the soldiers.
This is not what a general would do.
Send the order and retreat.
When Zhang He said he was retreating, he meant he was really retreating, and there was nothing sloppy about it.
Most of Wei's soldiers are still in the mountain road and do not need to do much mobilization and preparation. They can directly change the rear team into the front team and retreat directly.
But the more than 300 soldiers led by Zhang He still need to stay temporarily.
On the one hand, it is necessary to prevent the Shu army in Dachang from launching a counterattack and delaying its retreat. On the other hand, it is also necessary to be prepared for the sudden arrival of Zhang Xi's troops and pursuit into the mountain road.
Although Zhang He felt that with Zhang Xi's military style of using caution first, he probably would not follow him into fighting in a mountain road that he was not familiar with at all, but just in case, Zhang He still had to take these 300 people with him. As a rear-cutting force, try to avoid the possibility of pursuit by the Shu army.
After Zhang He accepted that his strategic plan had failed, he retreated decisively without any hesitation.
And Liu Yin in Dachangji now indeed no longer has the ability to counterattack to hold back Zhang He's troops. To be honest, even holding back those 300 people doesn't make much sense. Unless Zhang He's retreat can be blocked, then there is a counterattack. value.
But this is impossible.
Even if Zhang He is injured, if he wants to run away, he can escape at any time under the protection of his own soldiers. You can't stop him at all.
Liu Yin didn't want to let the soldiers who were already at the end of their strength fight for this.
Therefore, Liu Yin stood still in Dachangji and watched the Wei army retreat.
As for Zhang Xi, he marched hurriedly and slowed down when he arrived about one mile away from Dachangji.
Zhang Xi has always been cautious in using his troops. Even if he is eager to support Dachangji, he will not rush into it all at once, and he must be prepared to see if the Wei army may launch a surprise attack.
In fact, slowing down the march one mile away from Dachangji was already considered a risky move by Zhang Xi.
If the scouts hadn't reported that there were Han army flags and soldiers guarding Dachangji, Zhang Xi might have just set up camp on the official road and blocked Zhang He's march route.
His brother Paoze is still fighting hard, but he has given up on it. Zhang Xi cannot do this kind of thing.
Therefore, Zhang Xi marched as quickly as possible and ventured close to Dachangji. When he was still one mile away from Dachangji, he ordered the army to move slowly and be on guard to prevent the enemy from attacking.
However, Zhang Xi did not see any Wei troops standing on the road for one mile. There were Wei troops, and some of them died on the battlefield.
At this time, Liu Yin finally saw Zhang Xi's handsome flag and knew that Zhang Xi had arrived at the outskirts of Dachangji.
Now that the Wei army had withdrawn for about a quarter of an hour, Liu Yin also had the time to lead his troops out of Dachangji and come to join Zhang Xi.
When he saw Zhang Xi for the first time, Liu Yin immediately knelt down and apologized. After all, he was concerned about the lives of his sergeants and did not lead troops to fight back against the Wei army, allowing the Wei army to retreat calmly.
It's not a big or small thing, it's a mistake.
But Zhang Xi obviously would not punish Liu Yin for this. On the contrary, he quickly helped Liu Yin up and expressed his admiration and appreciation for Liu Yin's persistence.
And then Liu Yin quickly mentioned the second thing - in order to encourage the defeated soldiers to rejoin the battle, Liu Yin had promised to give these more than a hundred defeated soldiers hundreds of hectares of land.
When Zhang Xi heard this, he almost twitched his lips. One hundred hectares of land? ! You are really willing to go out of your way! ! !
But after carefully listening to Liu Yin's report on the situation, Zhang Xi could only hold his nose and admit it.
In that case, Liu Yin only promised a hundred hectares of fertile land and did not add a thousand catties of gold, which was already a great saving for himself.
Liu Yin actually regretted that he had known that the Wei army was going to withdraw, so he gritted his teeth and held on.
Now it's okay, I have already made my promise, and these defeated soldiers also responded. In the end, without any help, the Wei army withdrew.
This money is quite easy to make.
However, there is no joke in the army!
Especially when it comes to such a situation where heavy rewards require people to work hard, no matter whether these people really help in the end, they still have to give what is due, so Liu Yin mentioned this matter to Zhang Xi as soon as he apologized. Son.
Zhang Xi also knows that this matter cannot be ignored. If you don't keep your word this time, this trick will not work when you ask people to sacrifice their lives in the future.
Therefore, Zhang Xi really could only grit his teeth and agree to the matter of hundreds of hectares of fertile land. He would then leave it to Zhuge Liang to have a headache!
If we really want to conquer Guanzhong, hundreds of hectares of fertile land won't be a problem at all, Zhuge Liang can arrange it casually.
Even if Guanzhong cannot be conquered, with the current level of development of Hanzhong, it is not that difficult to get hundreds of hectares of fertile land to reward these soldiers. Maybe it can also help the development of Hanzhong.
It doesn't matter.
What really matters is
"Where is Xiu Yuan?! Why didn't Xiu Yuan come to see me?!"
Zhang Xi couldn't wait for Feng Xi to show up, so he quickly asked Liu Yin.
The two have been talking until now. Zhang Xi has never seen Feng Xi appear, and Liu Yin has not mentioned Feng Xi, which is very strange.
As for Liu Yin, he also paused and looked around hurriedly.
Liu Yin really didn't know what happened to Feng Xi. After all, when Feng Xi charged, the battlefield situation was very chaotic, and Liu Yin was busy setting up a second line of defense at the time, and didn't even notice that Feng Xi launched the charge.
But Liu Yin still somewhat understood in his heart that when the defeated army retreated, Feng Xi did not retreat with the defeated army, so Feng Xi's end was probably not much better.
Just now, I was busy reporting to Zhang Xi about the defense of Dachangji, so I didn't think about it for a while. Now that Zhang Xi mentioned it, Liu Yin's face suddenly darkened.
But Liu Yin didn't get accurate information after all, so he didn't dare to say nonsense. He could only send people to find those defeated soldiers and ask about Feng Xi's whereabouts.
"I personally saw General Feng leading his troops into the battle, but he disappeared later. I'm afraid he died in the battle."
A certain defeated soldier said this.
Zhang Xi and Liu Yin were both speechless for a long time, feeling very sad in their hearts.
Although Zhang Xi has been fighting for more than ten years, he has always been very lucky. The generals he partners with rarely die directly in battle. Liu Yin has only been in the army for a short time, and this is the first time that his colleagues have died in battle.
Although these two men were used to seeing soldiers die in battle, this was their first experience of seeing their colleagues die in battle, so they were inevitably a little sad and uncomfortable.
But no matter what, people cannot be resurrected after death. What the two of them can do now is to clean the battlefield, find Feng Xi's body, send it back to Chengdu, and bury him alive.
In a corner of the battlefield, the two finally saw Feng Xi lying motionless on the ground.
Zhang Xi watched silently without saying a word.
Finally, it was Liu Yin who quietly ordered the guards around him to carry Feng Xi's body back to the army and do some processing first.
After all, even if it is winter now, if you want to send it back to Chengdu, you still need to take some auxiliary measures in advance, otherwise you will have to send it back.
"General, General Feng seems to still have some energy!"
Um? ! ! !
(End of chapter)
