Chapter 386: Xingshi Mountain

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Xingshi Mountain is also called Xingshi Han, because the mountain shape is like a basin, there is a big valley in the outer danger, it is several miles on the plate road, the square and the four gates, so it is named.

Xingshi Mountain is a section of the southern extension of the Qinling Mountains, northwest and southeast direction, stretching for hundreds of miles, and Xingshi Mountain to the west, is the flat Hanzhong Plain, so Xingshi Mountain is the east gate of Hanzhong, and it is also the only dangerous place in the east of Hanzhong.

Although the battle of Huaishu Pass was fought very easily, but because of the failure to completely annihilate the Shu army, so there was no victory, Xiahou Ba was sad, for him, this battle was really bad, did not find out the geographical situation of Huaishu Pass in advance, and rashly led the troops to detour to the back of Huaishu Pass, the result was originally a wonderful move but eventually became a step of idle chess, and in the end it could only be a sigh of admiration, watching the Shu army break through.

Of course, this was not Xiahou Ba's fault, the situation was urgent, and it was impossible for him to send scouts to investigate the geographical situation first, but he knew that behind the Huaishu Pass, there was a secret path that could be bypassed, so he would adopt this bold and risky action.

But what made Xiahou Ba puzzled was that the operation of the two-sided attack failed, but Guo Huai had thousands of people on his side, how could it be possible for the Shu army to escape easily?

Of course, Xiahou Ba couldn't guess Guo Huai's thoughts, Guo Huai also had a chagrin expression on the surface, but he was secretly happy in his heart, what was the use of annihilating this Shu army, at most it was just a trivial credit to the credit book, but this was not the same as what Guo Huai planned.

Guo Huai's plan this time is to disturb Huang Cao Shuang's actions, and he can't watch Cao Shuang make contributions to Shu, the better Guo Huai fights as a pioneer, the more he makes a wedding dress for Cao Shuang, so he deliberately let Fu Shuang go, pretending to be unguarded, so that the Shu army can take the opportunity to escape.

In fact, if Guo Huai really worked hard, how could a Shu army of thousands of people run away easily?

After this Shu army escaped, it was extremely beneficial to Guo Huai, because in the next battle of Xingshi, the Shu army was already on guard, and the Wei army wanted to launch a surprise attack and catch the Shu army by surprise, it was impossible, and Cao Shuang's original plan to be noble and fast could only be declared bankrupt.

After reorganizing the army, Guo Huai led his troops to Fugukou, and Xiahou Ba also led the army to follow, not daring to have any more luck.

Guo Huai's performance is very strange in Xiahouba's opinion, when he fought for the position of the vanguard, but he was red-faced, Guo Huai had a posture of giving up his own people, but when it came to the real war, he was afraid to fight, and he was obviously suspected of not being able to work.

Therefore, in the next battle of prosperity, Xiahou Ba no longer expects Guo Huai to have any good performance.

From Huaishuguan to Fugukou, it is not far away, Guo Huai can't drag it too obviously, the Wei army went all the way, and then did not encounter the resistance of the Shu army, and successfully arrived at Fugukou.

Out of the Fu Luo Road, as long as they cross the Xingshi Mountain, the Wei army can enter the relatively flat Hanzhong Basin.

However, the Wei army looked west, but they were all dumbfounded, and the Xingshi Mountain in front of them was full of the banners of the Shu army, waving in the wind, and the momentum was awe-inspiring.

Xingshi Mountain is the remnant vein of the Qinling Mountains, although it cannot be compared with the towering Qinling Mountains, but the steepness is more than equal, many places are cliffs, only a few winding mountain roads, winding, looming in the mountains.

Due to the distance, in addition to the bright banners, the Wei army only faintly saw some figures, but it seemed to exist in every corner of Xingshi Mountain, as long as there were flags, there would be a figure of the Shu army.

Didn't you say that the total strength of Shu was only a hundred thousand people? Doesn't it mean that in Hanzhong, the Shu army can only survive 30,000 horses? But looking at it from afar, there are tens of thousands of Shu troops.

What a pit, what a pit!

In the hearts of most of the soldiers of the Wei army at this moment, I am afraid that tens of thousands of grass and mud horses are galloping past, who transmitted this information, and can it be more reliable?

The Wei army, which originally had a dominant psychology, was not calm at this time, hearing was false, seeing was believing, and the things in front of him could not be hidden, could the Shu army all over the mountains fall from the sky, and in an instant, the psychology of the Wei army had a big fluctuation, and there was some fear, and there was no longer the indomitable morale that it had at the beginning.

Guo Huai is very satisfied with his "masterpiece", it seems that the Shu army after getting the news of the Wei army's attack, it did make full preparations, and built Xingshi into a solid soup, Cao Shuang's original plan seems to have been completely bankrupt, if you can't quickly take Xingshi Mountain, the Wei army will fall into a dilemma, except for retreating, there is no other way to go.

However, Guo Huai was also very surprised, as the history of Yongzhou Thorn, the second-in-command of Wei on the western front, Guo Huai still has some understanding of the situation in Hanzhong, during the reign of Zhuge Liang, his defensive strategy is to attack and defend, and replace defense with offense, so the permanent army in Hanzhong has reached as many as 100,000 people.

After Zhuge Liang's death, Shu's strategy underwent a fundamental change, and during Jiang Wan's reign, Shu almost never sent troops again, so Hanzhong's defensive status declined, and most of the troops were withdrawn to Yizhou, and the number of troops that Hanzhong could maintain was only about 30,000 people.

Moreover, these more than 30,000 people are the defense strength of the entire Hanzhong, and it is impossible to concentrate all of them in Xingshi, according to previous estimates, the Shu army deployed in Xingshi can have 10,000 people.

Although it is not clear how many people there are in the Shu army, it should be at least much more than 10,000 people.

Guo Huai is full of suspicions, but it's okay to do this, the Shu army is powerful, and he just has a reason not to march, so let's talk about it when Cao Shuang's brigade comes.

So Guo Huai ordered the pioneer battalion to suspend its advance and rest in place.

On this mountain road, it was not spacious, and the pause of the pioneer camp almost blocked the road, and the follow-up Xiahouba almost had no way to go, and was completely blocked in the mouth of Fugu.

"What's going on?" Xiahou Ba couldn't help but be angry, and he was about to go out of Fu Luo Road, but at this time, he encountered a big blockage.

The people in the rear team naturally didn't know the situation in front, and naturally no one could answer Xiahouba's question.

Xiahou Ba was furious, rode his horse and galloped wildly, rushing to the front, he didn't care if there was anyone in front of him, he went on a rampage all the way, and the Wei soldiers of the vanguard battalion dared to provoke him, but obediently let out the way.