At the same time, outside the city of Yi County, the sound of killing was loud. Cao Zhen personally led 20,000 troops to attack the Han army camp overnight. Zhao Yun did not panic when he saw this, and commanded the sergeants to counterattack calmly.
In the past few dozen days, the Wei army had tried its best to break the Han camp, and had used it several times to attack at night like today. Therefore, Zhao Yun and others were not surprised, only that Cao Zhen was repeating his old tricks.
"Send an order to General Bo Miao and ask him to dispatch two thousand sergeants to the front camp." Seeing the fierce offensive of the Wei army, Zhao Yun immediately ordered a school captain.
The front camp and Jigu's rear camp were working together to support each other. Zhao Yun saw that the Wei army seemed to be rushing towards the main camp in full force and did not divide his troops to attack Jigu, so he dared to mobilize troops to strengthen the defense.
"General." The Wei army formed in the rear, and a general came to Cao Zhen's back with his horse.
Cao Zhen stared at the fierce battle in the distance and asked without looking back: "Have you informed everyone?"
"Don't worry, General. The commanders of all departments are already aware of tonight's strategy. We can act according to the plan only after the General gives the order." The general replied.
It turned out that in order not to leak secrets, only a few people knew about Cao Zhen's plan. It was not until the general offensive was about to launch tonight that Cao Zhen told the generals to prepare.
Cao Zhen nodded: "That's good. Now we just have to wait for the good news from Jigu."
At the Jigu camp, Deng Zhi was ordered to dispatch troops and horses to the front stronghold. The two strongholds were several miles apart, so it was quick to go to support him. Soon a reinforcement force of 2,000 men was assembled, and Deng Zhi personally sent them out of the camp gate and watched them leave.
For some reason, his heart was beating hard tonight, and he felt like something bad was going to happen.
For Deng Zhi, the deputy general of the right army, it is only a bad thing if the army is defeated. However, the Wei army's invasion tonight is no different from usual. The front camp is guarded by the old general Zilong, which is enough to deal with it, not to mention the addition of additional troops. Two thousand reinforcements have arrived, and there will be no problem in holding the camp.
However, if Deng Zhi had to think that there was something unusual about Wei Jun's attack tonight, he could only think that there was only one thing that was different from the past.
That is, before Cao Zhen led his army to invade, he would always divide his troops into two groups, one to attack the front camp and the other to attack Jigu, so that his army would be distracted from one another and unable to respond.
Deng Zhi remembered that in the past dozens of days, the Wei army had only attacked the front camp alone once. That time, Cao Zhen changed his tactics after seeing that he could not attack for a long time. Although he once posed a threat to the front camp, he still successfully attacked the Wei army with his own support. retreat.
Cao Zhen saw that only attacking the front camp was ineffective, and the incoming troops from behind still divided their troops into two groups. After all, Wei Jun had a greater chance of winning with this force.
Recalling this, the more Deng Zhi thought about the Wei army's tactics tonight, the more strange he felt.
But then I thought about it. After the Wei army dispatched troops to Chencang and Qixian, there were only more than 20,000 troops left in Yicheng. Now they have all been dispatched. Even if Cao Zhen really has a conspiracy, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
"As long as we hold the front camp, our army will not be afraid of Cao Zhen's strange moves." Deng Zhi thought to himself.
"Wait a minute, a strange move? If Cao Zhen really has a strange edict, where will he use it?" Deng Zhi suddenly thought: "Then he can only attack my Jigu camp."
"But how will he take action? Send an army to attack from the front? He is not afraid of facing our army head-on. What he fears most is a sneak attack from behind. But where does Cao Zhen have the extra troops to attack my camp? "
"Wait a minute, Cao Zhen just dispatched troops to Chencang and other places yesterday. Why did he come to attack my camp tonight? With the troops reduced, shouldn't they be unable to hold on? Why did they come here instead... Could it be... ." Deng Zhi seemed to have thought of something and was shocked.
He quickly returned to the main camp of the Chinese army and summoned the patrol captain to ask: "Is there anything unusual in the trails around the camp today?"
There are also several valleys near Ji Valley that lead to all directions. After Deng Zhi established the stronghold here, he sent small groups of sergeants to patrol these valley roads to prevent enemy troops from raiding through these trails.
"There was a report an hour ago, and everything is normal." the captain replied.
Deng Zhi nodded and said: "Suiyang Xiaogu leads to the southeast of Chencang. The location is extremely important. It is related to the life and death of the army. We must pay attention to it tonight and send more people to patrol to prevent the enemy from attacking from this way."
Suiyang Xiaogu is the Mawei Valley. Because water flows from the inclined valley into Suiyang Creek, the local mountain people also call it this name.
The cliffs in this valley are extremely dangerous and the streams are crisscrossed, making it extremely difficult to navigate. However, the road from here can lead to Chencang. Therefore, as soon as Deng Zhi and others arrived at Jigu garrison, they sent sentries to patrol the valley to prevent the Wei army from attacking from Chencang.
However, after dozens of days without seeing a single Wei army soldier coming from this road, Deng Zhi and others gradually lowered their vigilance, and their inspections of this road also changed from asking about it every day to only asking once every few days.
If Deng Zhi hadn't thought of something just now, he would have just let the patrol captain take responsibility for himself.
"No." Although the captain had doubts, he didn't want to ask too many questions and just followed orders.
"I hope I'm overthinking it," Deng Zhi thought to himself after the patrol captain left.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
"Enemy attack, enemy attack..."
Just as Deng Zhi was praying for God's blessing in his heart, the alarm bell in the northwest corner suddenly sounded, and the sergeant's shouts continued to be heard.
Deng Zhi secretly said something bad, and quickly ran out of the tent to look to the northwest. He saw a large fire suddenly appeared in front of him, densely packed, and seemed to be hundreds of torches.
"Reporting to the general, a large group of Wei troops suddenly attacked the North Village. The troops were caught off guard, and the gate of the village seems to be losing its defense." At this time, a general rushed to Deng Zhi and reported.
Deng Zhi shouted angrily: "The Wei army really attacked from the Suiyang Valley Road. The sentry didn't warn us, and the enemy actually reached the gate of the village. Damn it."
"General, we can no longer focus on investigating the sentry's negligence now. We should put defense against the enemy first," the general reminded.
Deng Zhi reacted after hearing this: "Instruct the soldiers from all the villages to go to the north gate to meet the enemy. They must keep the Wei army out of the camp." After that, he led his guards towards the north gate.
"Haha, the Shu thieves were so careless. Both sentry posts were killed by our army silently. God helped us, Wei, win tonight." Seeing that his raid was effective, the Wei army general couldn't help laughing happily.
This Wei army was sent to Chencang by Cao Zhen yesterday to reinforce the defense. Unexpectedly, halfway across the road, they suddenly crossed mountains and ridges and sneaked up from the small valley in Suiyang. No trace was revealed along the way.
When approaching the Han camp in Jigu, the Wei army general sent elite sergeants to clear out the Han army sentry posts. The Han soldiers on patrol had already slacked off in the past few days and were all killed by the Wei army without noticing, thus keeping the Wei army silent. They fought to the outside of the Han army's camp.
"You quickly lead two thousand troops to the west gate of Shu Village. You and I will attack in two directions." At this moment, the Han Army's North Village was in danger, and the Wei Army's general immediately asked his deputy to divide his troops to attack the West Village.
Deng Zhi was anxious and angry when he saw this. There were only more than 2,000 people in the Jigu camp, and the defense of the north gate was already stretched thin. There was nowhere left to defend the west gate.
However, the Wei army divided its forces, and he had to do the same. However, the Wei army was outnumbered, and the morale of his own army was greatly disturbed by the surprise attack. It was only a matter of time before the camp was broken.
So he quickly sent people to the front camp to ask for help, while he led his sergeants to continue to resist.
