Jingcheng, Zhang He led 10,000 elite horsemen to cross Jingcheng, leaving the majestic Taihang Mountain behind.

After the siege of Luoyang was lifted for three months, there was no movement of Eastern Wu troops, and Cao Rui was finally able to transfer Zhang He, a general, to the battlefield of Bingzhou. In addition, he not only made up for Zhang He's previous battle losses, but also allocated Zhang He a Bingzhou cavalry that originally belonged to Zhang Liao, led by Zhang Liao's son Zhang Hu. Among this group of men and horses are some veterans of Hanoi and Shangdang, who were recruited by Zhang Liao in Hanoi and other places on the orders of the general He Jin. After nearly 50 years of war, these people have changed from heroic young men to gray-haired old men, and their numbers have changed from thousands to dozens.

These people were not sent to fight, but to use their familiarity with their hometown as guides to guide this army through the mountains and appear behind the Shu Han army.

Jiang Wei and Wei Yan have been attacking Huguan for more than three months, and the Wei army has been unable to break through the defense line from the south and east. As soon as he freed his hand, Cao Rui sent Zhang He, an experienced veteran, to relieve the siege of Huguan.

Zhang He took a long detour, avoided Jiang Wei's defense, entered Taiyuan County from Jingcheng, and then went south from Taiyuan County, and went straight to the back of the Shu Han army. Zhang He knew that Wei Yan led 10,000 Xiliang elite cavalry to confront Xiahou Ba, guarding Jiang Wei's left flank. In order to relieve the siege of Huguan, it is necessary to defeat Wei Yan and this elite cavalry first.

In order to kill Wei Yan as much as possible, Zhang He sent someone to inform Xiahou Ba and asked him to attack together.

After Xiahou Ba received the news, he was ecstatic. This time since. Although he attacked many times, Wei Yan was stronger than him in terms of combat experience and troops, so he couldn't get one step closer to Huguan, and could only watch Hao Zhao being trapped in Huguan and unable to get out. Now that Zhang He has arrived, the Wei army has the upper hand in terms of both the strength and the command ability of the generals, and he can finally raise his eyebrows.

Xiahou Ba was ready, and after receiving the news that the vanguard led by Zhang Hu and Tian Fu had entered Lu County, he immediately led more than 5,000 horsemen to attack and slaughtered towards Huguan with great momentum.

Wei Yan received the report and immediately sent troops to intercept it. After Fa Miao got the news. Rushed to see Wei Yan. Remind Wei Yan that Xiahou Ba suddenly sent troops, and it was a momentum without hesitation, and I was afraid that reinforcements would arrive.

Wei Yan disagreed.

Fa Miao was helpless. He followed Wei Yan for a few months. Wei Yan's temper has long been mastered. I am a scholar who has never been on the battlefield. It's not even a military strategy. Wei Yan would not take his words seriously.

Although Wei Yan was proud, he was not negligent, and he increased the scope of scouts. After preparing for the contingency, he sent someone to inform Jiang Wei, and then led the troops to meet Xiahou Ba. The two sides met twenty miles north of Huguan and immediately began to attack.

The two sides have fought many times, and they have long known the roots, so they did not make many temptations and went all out at the beginning. Xiahou Ba led hundreds of tigers and leopards to rush to the front line, setting off wave after wave of attacks, impacting Wei Yan's Chinese army.

After half an hour of fighting, Xiahou Ba's offensive did not ease in any way, but became more and more fierce. Wei Yan felt a hint of something strange, and while he counterattacked, he quietly removed the main force from the battlefield. His vigilance soon proved wise, and the scouts came to report that a large number of Wei cavalry had been spotted in the northwest direction, and they were hurrying towards him.

Wei Yan was taken aback at this time, he knew that he had been fooled. Xiahou Ba's desperate attack was not to relieve the siege of Huguan, but to drag him down. If he did not take the initiative to withdraw the main force from the battlefield, but mixed up with Xiahou Ba, when the reinforcements of the Wei army appeared, he would have no power to fight back.

Wei Yan did not dare to slack off, and immediately withdrew from the battlefield, and at the same time alerted Jiang Wei: The Wei army has new reinforcements arriving.

When Zhang Hu and Tian Fu arrived, Wei Yan had already broken away from the battle, and although Xiahou Ba was bent on entangling Wei Yan, after all, he was unable to surround Wei Yan because of insufficient troops, so he could only watch Wei Yan go away. However, they were not discouraged, and after joining forces, they chased after Wei Yan again.

Wei Yan didn't have the heart to fight at this time, he was worried that these reinforcements were not all, and more reinforcements were coming. He was reluctant to attack hastily until he had figured out the enemy's true strength. He led the army closer to Jiang Wei, preparing to rely on the infantry formation to counterattack.

Upon learning of Wei Yan's retreat, Jiang Wei was furious.

After besieging Shangdang for nearly four months, seeing that the surrounding counties of Shangdang County had fallen into his hands, but Huguan could not be conquered for a long time, Jiang Wei had long been a little anxious. If you can't conquer Huguan for one day, you won't be able to really take possession of the party for one day, and there will be no real breakthrough in the war in the state. For Zhuge Liang, who was under great pressure on Chang'an and raised grain and grass for him, every day of delay was an ordeal.

Jiang Wei himself was also under tremendous pressure. Zhuge Liang rearranged the discussion, did not use Wei Yan or Wu Yi, but let him be the chief general of this army, so that he had too much burden on his shoulders. If he fails to complete the strategic task, he will become the culprit, and his abilities will be questioned in general.

He racked his brains, pondered for a long time, and came up with many ways to attack the city, and more than 300,000 fire bombs were all thrown out, but the Huguan was still firmly in Hao Zhao's hands. This seems to have reproduced the scene of Jicheng at the beginning, the strong attack could not break the city, and the food in the city could only be waited.

Originally, Jiang Wei thought that after the three-month period, the will of the defenders in the city would be weakened, but after three months, the Wei army in the city did not see any possibility of wavering. At this time, Wei Yan gave up the northern defense line again, so he couldn't hold back his anger and clashed with Wei Yan.

In the face of Jiang Wei's anger, Wei Yan disdained it and did his best to sneer at it. The two completely tore their faces and had a big quarrel. Wei Yan led his cavalry out of the camp and found another place to set up camp.

Jiang Wei was very angry, he couldn't wait to take Wei Yan's military power over and command it himself. It's a pity that even with the trust of the prime minister, he can't compete with Wei Yan's prestige, so he can only look at Wei Yan's back and sulk. Before he could get angry, Xiahou Ba, Zhang Hu and others forced him forward.

Jiang Wei only had 20,000 people around him, and he had been exhausted for a long time, and in the face of the menacing Wei army, they could only withdraw from the encirclement. Immediately afterwards, Jiang Wei received the news that Zhang He led the main force to arrive.

Jiang Wei's heart was like ashes. He knew that he had lost the opportunity to win, and it was impossible to occupy the Shangdang again, let alone complete the strategic intention of occupying and annexing the state.

In desperation, Jiang Wei announced his retreat.

However, retreating was not so easy, Zhang He led the cavalry to pursue, Xiahou Ba, Zhang Hu, Tian Fu and others took turns to fight, almost treating Jiang Wei as a piece of fat, and everyone wanted to bite off a piece of meat from Jiang Wei. They came and went like the wind, impacting Jiang Wei's position again and again.

Jiang Wei tried his best to fight and retreat, and by the time Wu Yi arrived to respond, he had only 10,000 people left. However, at the first glance of Wu Yi, Jiang Wei did not breathe a sigh of relief, nor did he review his own successes or failures, but gritted his teeth and said to Wu Yi:

"I'm going to write a book to impeach Wei Yan."

Wu Yi smiled bitterly and sighed secretly.

……

Wei Yan's impeachment came to Zhuge Liang's desk before Jiang Wei.

After receiving Wei Yan's impeachment letter, Zhuge Liang did not react for a long time, sitting in the room like a mud puppet, motionless. Wei Yan's accusations against Jiang Wei, he didn't take it to heart, he was worried that since a large number of Wei cavalry had entered Taiyuan, and the leader was Zhang He, Jiang Wei's Jihua who captured Huguan would be completely bankrupt. The difference in strength between the two sides was not large, but the discord between Wei Yan and Jiang Wei seriously weakened the combat effectiveness of the Shu Han army, especially when Wei Yan had almost all the cavalry in his hands.

The root source of this contradiction is because Jiang Wei's qualifications are not enough. He arranged Jiang Wei to be the main general, which aroused the disgust of generals like Wei Yan, Jiang Wei failed to conquer Huguan for three consecutive months, and I am afraid it is not unrelated to the unwillingness of his generals to contribute. Not only are generals like Guan Xing disobedient to Jiang Wei, but even generals with no background like Zhang Jing may not obey Jiang Weiyan, although they will not oppose it openly, but it is still very easy to secretly use some small means.

He wanted Jiang Wei to become famous, but he pushed Jiang Wei to the point where he couldn't do it. If he had personally led this army to attack Huguan, perhaps this situation would not have occurred.

At the end of the day, it's his fault. Wei Yan is not so much impeaching Jiang Wei as he is accusing him of improper employment and nepotism. And I'm afraid that Wei Yan is not the only person who wants to say this, but those people either don't have the confidence of Wei Yan, or they are not as arrogant as Wei Yan.

The battle of Luoyang even shattered a glimmer of hope for Zuihou, and he lost completely, without any record to speak of. In addition to paying nearly 30,000 casualties and a large amount of grain and grass, the only result was that he owed Wei Ba a large amount of money and gave Li Yan an excuse to blame.

Zhuge Liang could almost imagine Li Yan's smug sneer.

Two days later, the news that Jiang Wei withdrew from the party and retreated to Yiguan reached Chang'an, and the people of the Prime Minister's Mansion were panicked. Changshi Yang Yi, Hu Ji and others gathered together to discuss how to bear the responsibility for this defeat. Now that the Prime Minister's Mansion is losing ground in the contest with the Great General's Mansion, if Zhuge Liang takes on this matter again, the Prime Minister's Mansion will be even more powerless to fight against the Great General's Mansion, which will inevitably cause Li Yan's strength to further expand. Today's plan, the most Haode way is for Jiang Wei to take on this responsibility, if it is not enough, then add Wu Yi and Wei Yan. In a word, Zhuge Liang himself must be cleared out of it to ensure that the core of the Prime Minister's Mansion does not fall.

This scene is familiar, during the battle of Longyou that year, it was also for this reason that Ma Jian was killed, but Ma Jian was saved by Wei Ba. Today, Jiang Wei was pushed to the position of scapegoat, but he was not able to stand up for Jiang Wei.

"Jiang Wei can't be held primarily responsible." Zhuge Liang said in a hoarse voice: "Besides, in the face of a veteran general like Zhang He, in the face of the pursuit of more than 15,000 elite horsemen, Jiang Wei has no cavalry, and it is rare to be able to retreat with his whole body." How can I break the pillars of the country because of my own interests? ”…… (To be continued......)