What Guo Huai didn't know was that at the same time that he sent scouts to investigate Ma Chao's movements, Ma Chao also learned the news of his arrival with a large army from his own scouts.

Unlike Guo Huai, Ma Chao did not convene the generals to discuss the matter.

Well, there aren't many generals in an army of less than three thousand.

In addition to this reason, Ma Chao didn't want to cause panic in the Liangzhou army because of this news.

Although the morale of the Liangzhou army is booming now, after all, it is not a soldier brought out by himself, and Ma Chao doesn't know how much pressure they can bear in their hearts.

Ma Chao only found Ma Dai to discuss the matter.

When Ma Dai learned the news, even though he had been prepared in his heart, he still felt very troubled by the arrival of tens of thousands of troops led by Guo Huai.

According to the information told by Mi Yang at the beginning, the strength of the Cao Wei West Route Army commanded by Guo Huai should be about 20,000.

It can be seen from the information that the scouts have returned now that Guo Huai's army is definitely more than 20,000.

Most likely, it has already reached thirty thousand, or even more.

There are 30,000 troops, but now there are ten times as many as the Liangzhou army.

With such a huge gap in troops, anyone facing the situation will feel a great headache.

After Ma Dai carefully examined Ma Chao's expression, he made a suggestion:

"General, send someone to General Zuo for help."

Originally, in the face of such a large gap in strength, the suggestion of a normal person should be to withdraw from the army, but Ma Dai knew before that it was impossible for Ma Chao to withdraw at this time.

After excluding the best option of retreating, the only option is to ask for help.

Faced with Ma Dai's suggestion, Ma Chao nodded approvingly.

He said lightly: "The messenger has been sent, and I think reinforcements will arrive soon." ”

Hearing Ma Chao say this, Ma Dai's heart felt a little more stable.

Maybe Mi Yang can't send too many troops to help now, but if he can come with a thousand reinforcements, it is better than nothing.

After learning that reinforcements were coming, Ma Dai retired to Ma Chao and continued to supervise the construction of the camp.

After Ma Dai left, when no one was around, Ma Chao's brows were slightly twisted.

From his performance, it can be seen that his heart is not as calm as he seems on the surface.

However, Ma Chao was not only worried about the imminent attack of tens of thousands of Wei troops, he was more worried that these tens of thousands of Wei troops were led by Guo Huai.

Guo Huai is in the Central Plains, and his reputation is not big, but in Yongliang, there is no general who has not heard of his reputation.

What's more, Ma Chao once fought Guo Huai on the banks of the Weishui River.

In that battle, his strength was much stronger than Guo Huai, but the results of the battle were not satisfactory.

It was also this battle that made Ma Chao remember Guo Huai, who was only Ling Shi.

Now that the situation has changed, it is Guo Huai's turn to attack him with a huge advantage, and in such a situation, Ma Chao can't help but worry about the big battle coming from the beginning.

Ma Chao is proud and good, but pride is not empty-eyed, there are many talents in the world, who dares to say that he can defeat the world's talents?

But Ma Chao's insistence on guarding the mountain was not an impulsive move.

On the surface, it was more appropriate for him to lead the remaining Liangzhou army to retreat to Yinping and defend it.

But Ma Chao, who has inspected the city defense of Yinping, knows that in terms of the degree of danger alone, Yinping may not be as good as Gushan.

After all, no matter how Yinping's city defense is strengthened, his foundation is still only a small city, and with this foundation, Yinping's city defense can never be called impregnable.

Besides, don't look at the current Ma Chaoruo gathering the Yinping defenders, the strength of the troops can reach 5,000 people, but just as Zhang Wei was worried about, the 5,000 defenders will have to be divided into a part to guard other key roads.

Under the division of troops, the number of troops to defend Yinping City in the coming day is only 3,000 at most.

In that case, why not use these 3,000 troops to garrison the more dangerous fortified mountains?

Among them, Ma Chao has already considered the benefits and disadvantages very clearly in his heart.

With Ma Chao's character, if there is one thing that must be done, then he will definitely do it, no matter how difficult that thing is.

Now that all his arrangements have been made, it will be up to Guo Huai to make a move.

Ma Chao didn't wait too long, and a few days later, outside the mountain road on the other side of Gushan, a mighty marching army of tens of thousands appeared.

Guo Huai, who lived in the middle of tens of thousands of troops, looked at Gushan, which seemed to be close to him, and he not only praised it from the bottom of his heart in his heart:

This solid mountain is really blessed, steep and abnormal!

Thinking that there was a difficult opponent who was leading a large army at this moment, waiting for him on the main road of Gushan, Guo Huai's heart was not without worries.

But condescendingly glanced at the tens of thousands of elite Wei troops surrounding him, as well as the endless grain transportation team in the rear of the army, and the slight worry in Guo Huai's heart disappeared.

When the front army of the army reached the foot of Gushan Mountain, Guo Huai immediately ordered the army to camp at the foot of Gushan Mountain.

Later, Guo Huai himself led a troop and personally entered the Gushan Road to investigate the situation of the Han army camp.

In the Han army camp, the scout must have been able to investigate, but the scout could only truthfully report everything he saw with his eyes, and he had no way to tell Guo Huai what he couldn't see with his eyes.

Under strict protection, Guo Huai approached the Han army camp step by step.

The main road of Gushan is not long, and Guo Huai did not walk out for long, and he vaguely saw a large camp standing in the main road in front of him.

Not to mention the camp gate of the Han army camp for the time being, the dense rejection of horses in front of the camp alone was enough to make any general beside Guo Huai feel frightened.

How many trees do you have to cut down to put up so many rejections?

In addition to the dense rejection of horses that first caught his eye, Guo Huai then carefully looked at the Han army camp in his eyes.

The gate of the Han army camp was built very wide and very high.

It's like a solid wall.

Up to a height of several zhang, it can ensure that the archers of the Han army can give full play to the advantages of condescending.

And enough width can also allow Ma Chao to arrange more archers on the camp wall.

In this way, if your own army attacks the camp, the Han archers on the camp wall can easily exchange archery in two or even three shifts.

Under this arrangement, coupled with the condescending advantage, the casualties of the Wei army in the coming day must be very large.

The defense inside the Han army camp is not visible to Guo Huai for the time being.

But it was this external defense facility that made Guo Huai realize one thing - Ma Chao is not just a good attacker.

But it's natural to think about it.

Those who are good at attacking should not be ignorant of defense, and even have a lot of experience in defense.

This allows them to find the defender's weak point as quickly as possible when they attack.

But the same applies to the good side.

Only when we have a good understanding of the offensive can we see the moves and dismantle the enemy's attacks again and again.

Guo Huai and Ma Chao are both famous Yongliang people, but the combat styles of the two are very different in the eyes of Yongliang people.

Ma Chao is good at fast attack, disintegrating the enemy in fast attack again and again.

And Guo Huai is good at defense, looking for the right time in a tight defense and sending troops to break the enemy.

Now when Ma Chao, who is good at attacking, meets Guo Huai, who is good at guarding, the roles of the two are reversed.

The current situation is that Guo Huai is about to become the side that launches a fierce attack.

Thinking of this, Guo Huai feels that sometimes things in the world are really wonderful.

But this kind of wonder also made Guo Huai's fighting spirit continue to rise.

On the bank of the Weishui River, in order to protect Cao Cao, he personally led the tiger guards to block Ma Chao's cavalry.

In that battle, Ma Chao was as powerful as a rainbow and brave, but under the tight defense line organized by Guo Huai, Ma Chao was never able to break through the defense line formed by the human wall, and finally could only retreat after killing many Wei troops.

In terms of the casualties of both sides in that battle, it was Ma Chao who won that battle.

And if you look at the purpose of both sides, it is Guo Huai who defeated Ma Chao.

On the whole, Ma Chao and Guo Huai can be regarded as a winner or loser in that battle.

Now, when the tide turns, what will be the outcome of the war?

Guo Huai set his eyes on the high camp wall, and on the densely populated camp wall, Guo Huai seemed to see the tiger and wolf-like gaze that he had not seen for many years.

When Guo Huai was looking at Ma Chao, Ma Chao was also standing on the camp wall, looking at Guo Huai below.

There were no names, no exact information, but at this moment both sides felt it, and each seemed to be looking at each other.

Let the big battle that was not won or lost back then be divided today.

It's just that today, I am the one who has the advantage!

After this thought came to mind in his heart, Guo Huai led the surrounding sergeants and slowly retreated towards the rear.

And watching Guo Huai gradually move away from his sight, Ma Chao's eyes sank slightly.

Those who are dying naturally have to make up for all their regrets.

After Guo Huai returned to the camp, he summoned the general Chang Diao.

Chang Diao was originally a general under Cao Ren's account, and was captured by Mi Yang after the first battle of Xicheng, and was later returned to the Wei army by Mi Yang.

Because Chang Diao's surrender was instructed by Cao Ren before his death, Cao Pi did not embarrass him after Chang Diao returned to Wei.

Cao Pi felt that there would be a big battle in the coming days, so he reinstated Chang Diao and sent Guo Huai's subordinates to serve.

Similar arrangements were made to Chang Diao, as well as Xiahou Shang, Man Chong and others, but they were treated better, and were sent by Cao Pi to Shouchun to assist Cao Xiu in guarding Huainan.

After Chang Diao arrived, Guo Huai immediately gave him a task.

"You set out on the same day and make a detour from the mountains to the rear of the enemy army and deliver my letter to some Qiang chieftains."

After saying this, Guo Huai took out several letters from his arms.

When I saw these letters, I often stared.

He is not a fool, of course he can see Guo Huai's intentions.

Guo Huai wanted to contact the Qiang army behind Gushan and let them attack Ma Chao's army from behind.

If this goal is achieved, the defeat of Ma Chao's army is almost predictable.

When Zhuge Liang had not yet fought the stunning Battle of Lucheng, in the hundreds of years of war history in China, there had never been a large army that had not collapsed under the flanking attacks before and after.

Chang Diao, who realized the importance of this task, immediately respectfully took the letters from Guo Huai's hands, and then remembered several locations of this mission under Guo Huai's instructions.

Soon after, Chang Diao walked out of Guo Huai's big tent with the letter.

Looking at the back of Chang Diao's departure, Guo Huai's eyes were full of hope.

It is good that the main road of Gushan is occupied by the Han army, but this move of the Han army can only block the march of the army, and some sporadic activities cannot be stopped by the Han army.

This gave him the opportunity to contact the Qiang leaders in Wudu County.

And Guo Huai believed that as long as his letters were delivered to the hands of those Qiang leaders who had made friends, then those Qiang leaders would definitely raise troops to help him!

Perhaps in terms of prestige among Qiang, he is not as good as Ma Chao.

But what if you add the tens of thousands of troops he brought?

It is clear who is strong and who is weak, and many people will naturally make the choice of understanding current affairs.

After completing this lore arrangement, Guo Huai immediately summoned the generals to discuss the siege of the city tomorrow.

Even if he already has a lore in his hand, he has to lead a large army to attack the Han army camp, firstly, to test the depth of the Han army, and secondly, this can also attract Ma Chao's attention to the front.

Guo Huai, who is good at guarding, is also quite good at arranging siege tasks.

Under his arrangement, soon each general was given the corresponding task.

As soon as tomorrow arrives, tens of thousands of Wei troops can launch an attack on the Han army's camp.

Early tomorrow morning, tens of thousands of troops will be assembled in the camp under the command of their respective generals.

When the majestic drums in the camp sounded, a Wei army of more than 1,000 people wearing tattered cloth armor marched towards the mountain road under the command of a general.

They were accompanied by hundreds of wagons.

As one of the most common siege equipment in the world to clear roadblocks, Guo Huai led an expedition this time, and prepared thousands of wagons in his army.

It's just that the Wei army sent soldiers to clean up the Han army's rejection of horses, but they were not their regular soldiers.

This can also be seen in the clothing of the soldiers.

In this southern expedition, Cao Zhen used 100,000 troops, and these 100,000 troops were all pawns who could go directly to the battlefield.

According to the logistics standards of the military at that time, a regular soldier usually arranged three to five auxiliary soldiers to be responsible for their food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

Auxiliaries belong to the logistics soldiers in the army, and they generally do not need to go to the battlefield, but because they do not have to go to the battlefield, in the eyes of many generals, their value is far less than that of the regular soldiers.

Today, Guo Huai sent thousands of soldiers to attack the Han army's camp, and they were all such auxiliaries.

Guo Huai knew that in the face of his own action to dismantle and reject the horse, Ma Chao would definitely react.

And for the defenders, their reaction at the beginning must have been the most violent.

Guo Huai didn't want his life to die in vain.

For this purpose, it would be appropriate to send auxiliaries to act as substitutes for the dead ghosts.

Although the auxiliary soldiers may not be able to use it skillfully because they have not been trained, this disadvantage is nothing compared to the life of his own pawn.

In order to prevent the auxiliary soldiers from escaping from the battle for a while, Guo Huai also specially arranged a team of supervisors in their rear.

Thousands of Wei army auxiliaries under the command of the generals and colonels soon appeared in the sight of the Han army with hundreds of wagons.

When the enemy was attacked, many bells sounded in the Han army camp.

This bell also made Ma Chao, who was having breakfast, immediately put down the food in his hand and rushed towards the camp gate.

There is one more chapter in the early hours of the morning.

(End of chapter)