It was just getting dark, and the Wei army outside Jieting City had already ordered their troops and was ready to go.
"Father, let me go with you!" Zhang Xiong wore armor and drove his horse to Zhang He. The place where he was injured by the arrow yesterday was bandaged. After some movement, there was faint traces of blood.
"Xiong'er, go back! There are so many military orders, how can you make your own decisions!" Zhang He looked at the eldest son who had been following him and scolded him.
"General Zhang, please take us with you. The injury on my shoulder is not a problem at all!" On the other side, Zhang Tong and Le Zhao also came on horseback. Zhang Tong stepped forward to ask for orders. Le Zhao stopped half a meter behind him without making a sound, but it was obvious that he wanted to go with him.
"Nonsense! What do you think of war? Are you still trying to disobey me?"
Zhang He is now a bit like one head and two brothers. Not only does the eldest son, who has always been obedient, show signs of late rebellion in middle age, but the two younger sons are also causing trouble.
"Now the enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. If when I attack the city, Ma Su'er sneaks up on me from behind. What should our army do?"
Zhang He looked at these juniors, took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and continued: "What is the most important thing for a general on the battlefield?"
"It means adapting to changes in the battlefield situation and environment. As the saying goes: those with power control power because of advantage."
"When I led five thousand elite cavalry to Jieting, I neither went up the mountain to kill the enemy nor went straight to Longyou. Instead, I directly cut off the water source, which was to adapt to local conditions. After what happened yesterday, I am preparing to attack the city today. It's not really a siege. Each of our elite cavalry is so precious, how can they be used as siege infantry?"
"This move is only to explore the opponent's reality first, because we still don't know how many troops Zhuge Kongming sent to Jieting."
After a pause, looking at the three silent juniors in front of him, he spoke again:
"But when we are pretending to attack the city and the Shu army on the mountain comes down to make a surprise attack, what should our army do?"
"You will need to resist then. Now, have you figured it out?"
"General Zhang, if when you are attacking the city, Ma Di's army comes down from the mountain to attack, and the enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered, what should we do?" After a moment, Le Zhaofa asked.
"We are just the vanguard, reinforcements will arrive in less than ten days." Zhang He did not answer Le Zhao's question directly.
"I understand. I wish General Zhang a great victory!"
Several people clasped their fists and sent Zhang He off to lead his troops towards Jieting City.
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In Jieting City, five hundred soldiers of the Shu Han Kingdom were already waiting in full formation.
"General, the Wei army has arrived at the city. Zhang He has brought about three thousand elite cavalry this time."
"It's all cavalry? How can this cavalry attack the city? No matter how weak the city gate is, it cannot be shaken by human power!"
"Isn't this He just stupid? He doesn't use rams and siege ladders to attack the city?"
"I thought they had brought their thunderbolt car, and I was worried that our broken city wall would be blasted away in two blows."
The soldiers were chattering away, and the tense atmosphere before was completely gone.
It seems that just as General Ma expected, Zhang He intends to explore the strength of our troops in the city this time.
"Half of the people will guard the city gate, and half of the people will go to the city wall. Put flags on the city wall for me, and each person will be responsible for waving four or five flags for me. No matter how Zhang He yells and scolds, ignore it. If you see our troops, Get ready to open the door immediately."
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"Brother Zijun! Brother Zijun! You and I were both generals of the Wei Dynasty before. Now that you have arrived in Shu, how will the Zhuge villagers treat you well?"
"Brother Zijun! Is Ma Su squeezing you out in every way? How about letting you guard the empty city alone?"
"Brother Zijun, I think there are only a few hundred people in your city..."
"Listen to the Shu army in the city, you have been surrounded. If you are willing to surrender, our Wei army will definitely treat you well..."
"Oh, brother Zijun, I just saw that a piece of your city wall fell down..."
Zhang He led three thousand elite cavalry to stop a hundred meters outside the city. He tilted his head on his horse and shouted loudly at the top of the city wall. He shouted one sentence himself and asked the soldiers behind him to repeat the same sentence. He repeated it so much that it made people feel tired. .
Zhang He would shout once every hour, but a few hours passed, and even though Wei Jun shouted until his mouth went dry, there was still no response in the city.
"General, the city wall is only a few feet high and is in dilapidated condition. The city gate looks to be in disrepair. Why don't we first send a team of people to dismount and use a ram to see if we can break through the city gate." A relative Bing suggested to Zhang He in a hoarse voice.
"There's no rush, it's not time yet." Zhang He slowly drank the water from the water bag, neither attacking nor withdrawing his troops.
Not long after, soldiers from the rear came to report: "General, there are Shu troops in the camp behind, and there are thousands of them."
Zhang He didn't see any panic, as if he had expected it, he laughed loudly: "Brother Zijun, since you keep silent, then I can only go and meet that Ma Junjun!"
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Outside the Wei army camp,
Yue Fei and his five thousand Shu Han soldiers were fighting with the soldiers stationed in the Wei army.
All the officers and soldiers of the Wei army were cavalry, while the Shu army only had generals on horseback, and the rest were infantry. Therefore, although the Shu army had an advantage in numbers, it did not have an advantage in combat effectiveness. Instead, it tended to be slightly defeated. The battle situation was temporarily It became sticky.
Yue Fei rode his horse forward alone, fired his bow from left to right, and shot several Wei soldiers, then rushed into the Wei camp with a long spear. After a few shots, dozens of Wei cavalry were picked off the horse.
The general's bravery and leading by example greatly inspired the Shu Han soldiers behind him, and they all became very brave.
Huang Xi led a group of large soldiers to follow Yue Fei. After a few rounds, he even snatched several of the opponent's horses. He continued to fight while trying to tame the horses.
Zhang Xiong, Zhang Tong, and Le Zhao, as the remaining generals, saw the bravery of the opponent's general, and the three of them joined forces to fight Yue Fei.
After dozens of rounds, Zhang Xiong was defeated first and was knocked down by Yue Fei with a single shot. Just when Yue Fei was about to stab him with a spear, a roar came from the outside.
"My dear Ma Su! How dare you touch my Xiong'er!"
Zhang He quickly joined the battlefield with three thousand elite cavalry.
Yue Fei's men did not stop, and continued to stab Zhang Xiong with their spears. They were blocked by Zhang Tong's crescent halberd. They raised their spears and thrust them down again, but were stopped by Le Zhao's spears...
Zhang He saw such a scene as soon as he arrived at the battlefield. He didn't care much, killed several Shu soldiers, and went straight to Zhang Xiong.
"Don't hurt my hero!" Zhang He also wielded a spear. Although he was old now, he was still strong and strong. After a while, he and Yue Fei were fighting together.
While Yue Fei was fighting with Zhang He, Zhang Tong and Le Zhao quickly rescued Zhang Xiong. Li Sheng wanted to intercept and start a fight with Zhang Tong. Although Zhang Tong was younger, his crescent halberd made the tiger angry, almost After the first round, Li Sheng gradually lost. Fortunately, Huang Xi arrived in time, and the two barely fought to a draw with Zhang Tong.
Due to the addition of Zhang He's three thousand cavalry, the Shu army's numerical advantage was lost.
Just as the Shu Han soldiers fell one by one, a loud whistle sounded from the direction of the ancient city. With this whistle, the Shu Han army began to retreat in an orderly manner.
The Wei army naturally refused to give in and gradually formed a circle around the Shu army.
After Yue Fei fought with Zhang He for dozens of rounds, although he could feel that Zhang He's physical strength was reaching its limit, he did not hesitate to fight and thrust his spear at an angle. When Yue Fei opened his jaw to dodge in a hurry, he quickly turned his horse's head. The spear moved very fast, and after a few swishes, a gap was opened in the encirclement. Li Sheng and Huang Xi followed closely behind, and the remaining Shu Han soldiers also rushed out of the encirclement...
In this battle, the Shu Han army suffered more than 800 casualties, captured more than ten war horses, and the remaining soldiers: more than 5,000 people in Jieting City and more than 4,000 people on the top of Nanshan Mountain.
The Wei army suffered more than 500 casualties and lost more than 20 horses. Lieutenant General Zhang Xiong was seriously injured and his life was in danger. The remaining soldiers were more than 4,000 elite cavalry.
The first head-to-head confrontation between the two sides has come to an end. Neither lose nor win, but each other will suffer damage. However, the real battle in Jieting has just begun...
