Yesterday's battle was entirely hand-to-hand, and the two sides fought each other in close quarters and fought extremely fiercely.

Today's battle has become an offensive and defensive battle, the Wei army belongs to the attacking side, the Shu army belongs to the defensive side, the Shu army uses deep trenches and high bases to block the Wei army, the first troops invested by the two sides are long-range troops, mainly archers and crossbowmen, and they began to shoot fiercely at a distance of about 100 paces.

The arrows on both sides are like rain, the arrows are overwhelming, the Shu army uses the earthen wall built to resist the arrows of the Wei soldiers, and the Wei soldiers are protected by shields, despite this, there are still a lot of casualties on both sides, such dense rain of arrows, there will always be so many arrows to break through the defense, take the lives of the soldiers on both sides.

This kind of offensive and defensive battle, for both sides, is destined to be a war of attrition, because the front mountain and the back mountain are roughly on a horizontal line, even if the road in the middle is a little rugged, but in general, the difficulty is not great, in addition to the passage is not too wide is not conducive to the attack of large troops, this passage for the Wei army, is not an insurmountable natural danger.

Guo Huai's face was gloomy, Cao Liang's intentions were sinister, he was not unclear, but this guy was holding chicken feathers as an arrow, but Guo Huai had to obey, and the resentment in his heart was naturally conceivable.

At this moment, Guo Huai wants to be passive and slack, I'm afraid it won't work, after all, there are so many pairs of eyes staring behind him, Guo Huai has no chance to do ghosts again.

In desperation, Guo Huai had no choice but to lead the army to launch an offensive "hard", and the archers of the Wei army at medium and long distances were ten thousand arrows, covering the shield soldiers to advance and pressing towards the defensive positions of the Shu army step by step.

The terrain here is not suitable for rolling wood and stones, it is difficult to stop the advance of the Wei army with bows and arrows alone, and under the cover of shields, hundreds of Wei soldiers are slowly like turtles, slowly coming towards the forward position of the Shu army.

The earthen walls were built up after a temporary trench was dug and loosely constructed, and were only suitable for long-range defense against enemy arrows, and were extremely vulnerable to enemy damage if they were caught in close combat.

Seeing that the Wei army was getting closer and closer to the earthen wall, Liu Min shouted loudly and led his troops to rush out to block the Wei army's offensive in front of the earthen wall.

Soon, the two sides fell into a hand-to-hand battle, compared to Guo Huai's absent-mindedness, Liu Min did his best and forgot to die, so this close-range hand-to-hand combat was destined to fall to the Shu army from the beginning.

Guo Huai led the army to fight with the Shu army for a short time, and he was unable to break through the defense line of the Shu army at all, so he had to retreat in defeat, leaving a corpse in the ground.

Yang Hu looked at it on the battlefield, and said to Cao Liang very dissatisfied: "Brother-in-law, Guo Huai has no intention of fighting at all, and he was expected to break through the defense line of the Shu army, but he fought back and forth, but he was defeated, he must have done it on purpose!" ”

Cao Liang smiled slightly, how could he not see what Guo Huai did, but Cao Liang obviously didn't care, whether Guo Huai didn't work hard, or deliberately retreated, he still had to fight after all, and before he got the order to retreat, even if he fought all the troops, he couldn't leave his post without permission.

Since it is a war of attrition, Cao Liang did not expect to be able to eat the Shu army in one go, anyway, the Wei army has enough troops, and no matter how big the consumption is, it can withstand it, even if Guo Huai does not do his best, as long as he is on the front line, it will inevitably put some pressure on the Shu army.

After attacking three times in a row, Guo Huai's army was never able to break through the defense line of the Shu army, but it can be seen that they were also exhausted, and the men and horses really lost a lot, but they also killed a lot of enemies.

Cao Liang ordered Guo Huai to retreat, and if Cao Liang continued to force Guo Huai's army to attack under such circumstances, it would be a bit deliberate, and it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction and mutiny among the army.

However, today's first battle is enough for Guo Huai to drink a pot, and the Yongzhou army under his command has also lost a lot of people, these people may become Sima Yi's wings in the future and become the capital of his rebellion, Cao Liang can consume a little more at this time, and the battle with the Sima family must be a long-term and long process, as long as it can involve the advantages of one and the other, Cao Liang will not let it go easily.

Guo Huai is Sima Yi's sworn friend, and Sun Li is called Sima Yi's right-hand man, if you take the opportunity of this expedition to get rid of Guo Huai, that is the best result.

However, Cao Liang can't be too obvious, after all, it has not yet reached the point where the two sides tear their faces and fight each other, and Guo Huai is always cautious, even if he commands the army to attack, he has never been at the forefront like Xiahouba, and has always put himself in the safest environment, Cao Liang wants to borrow the hands of the Shu people, and it is obviously no chance to get rid of him.

After removing Guo Huai, Cao Liang arranged for two other Wei armies to start a wheel battle, half resting and half attacking, always putting pressure on the Shu army outside the Houshan defense line and not giving them any respite.

Wang Ping is deeply distressed, Cao Liang's style of fighting and contribution, so that Wang Ping is very difficult, after all, the Wei army is numerous, the front of the death of one, the back can be on the top, and once the Shu army is killed one, it is irreversibly lost a member, in the long run, the Shu army will soon be spelled out.

Wang Ping knew that although the letter for help had already been sent, but when the reinforcements arrived, it would have to wait at least twenty days or a month.

What to do? If the Shu army continues to fight, the losses of the Shu army will become more and more, so much that Wang Ping can't bear it at all, the back mountain of Xingshi Mountain is not as dangerous as the front mountain after all, and it can be done with one block ten.

Holding the back mountain completely depends on the willpower of the Wei army to insist, but this bit of spirit will probably be exhausted in the next few days, and the battle will continue to be unsustainable.

Originally, Wang Ping was extremely confident in defending Xingshi Mountain, but Cao Liang's fire really burned him to a burn, Wang Ping was really helpless, he really couldn't afford this kind of war of attrition!

What should I do if I can't afford it? Only the withdrawal of the army, as early as possible, save a little more strength, Xingshi Mountain can not be defended, but the Shu army still has the two cities of Hanle to defend, and Yang'an Pass to defend, even if Xingshi Mountain is really lost, it is not the end of the world, Wang Ping still has the opportunity to hold on to help.