The situation that Guo Huai is facing now is not only the gains and losses of Meixian County in Houlu, but also the problem of grain and grass supply, and the Shu army in front of him is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

After an almost farce-like battle, the Shu army launched a fierce attack on the eastern defense line of Wuzhangyuan, forcing Guo Huai to not dare to leave the mountain road on the east side of Wuzhangyuan too far.

The Shu army was to use Zhang Xi as the front governor, commanding more than 10,000 soldiers to attack the Wei army's eastern mountain road camp.

What is Zhang Xi's ability, Guo Huai has already understood, not to mention the flexibility of using soldiers, it is okay to like to make some ghost ideas, the continuous crossbow arrow that Guo Huai has not figured out the principle until now is proof.

Zhang Xi personally led the troops to attack the mountain road camp on the east side of Wuzhang Plain, and Guo Huai did not dare to take it lightly.

Although Guo Huai still occupies a geographical advantage, the mountain road on the east side of Wuzhangyuan is narrower and steeper than the mountain road on the west side, and if Guo Huai personally commands it, it is impossible to give Zhang Xi a chance to mix in the fine work. But the mountain road is narrow, which means that the camp set up by Guo Huai on the mountain road cannot be too big, and there can only be a thousand people stationed in it at most.

To continue to accept the opponent's 10,000-level attack with 1,000 people, in fact, the pressure is also very high.

Although Zhang Xi's army could not invest too many troops in the mountain road attack because of the narrow mountain road, the problem was that Zhang Xi's army could be rotated at any time, but Guo Huai really didn't dare. In case Zhang Xi caught the gap when changing defenses, if he was caught by Zhang Xi and assaulted, the camp would have to be lost.

Guo Huai did not doubt that Zhang Xi had this ability, or rather, Guo Huai suspected that Zhang Xi's purpose of attacking the mountain road camp so non-stop in turn was to force himself to change his defense, so as to seize the opportunity to break through the camp in one fell swoop.

Therefore, when Guo Huai was faced with Zhang Xi's subordinates attacking in turn, he could only rely on the hard top of the soldiers in the original camp to support the death of sending a small number of reinforcements into the camp when the camp was damaged.

If it continues to be so hard for a long time, not to mention the casualties of the soldiers, the psychological tolerance of the soldiers will also reach the limit, and it is possible to collapse at any time.

The battle at the front was already very uncomfortable for Guo Huai, but the Shu army in the rear also broke through Chencang Road and directly threatened Meixian. I don't know what the current situation in Meixian is.

Soon, Guo Huai received the news that he least wanted to receive. The battle report came from the Biqiu Jian fast horse, and Meixian was lost.

Seeing this news, Guo Huai's eyes were really black, and he almost fainted.

The loss of Meixian County was too great a blow to the front line, Guo Huai didn't take a closer look at Biqiu Jian's next suggestion, and directly threw the battle report to the ground, panting vigorously.

This startled Wen Qin, and hurriedly helped Guo Huai to sit down in the camp tent, and helped Shunqi to see that Guo Huai was almost relieved, so he went to pick up the battle report on the ground and read it himself.

When Wen Qin saw the loss of Meixian, he was also surprised.

However, Wen Qin was mainly surprised by the speed of Meixian's loss, and he didn't think too much about the impact of Meixian's loss.

It's not that Wen Qin doesn't have this sensitivity, it's mainly because Wen Qin is not the commander of the whole army, his responsibilities and burdens are not as heavy as Guo Huai's, and he doesn't feel so deeply about the whole army's back road being cut off.

In different positions, the methods and angles of thinking about the same thing are different, so Wen Qin was surprised after seeing the loss of Meixian, but he still saw the suggestion of Biqiu Jian in the back.

After thinking about it for a while, Wen Qin also found the unreasonableness of Biqiu Jian's suggestion, but looking back and thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is not much choice for the Wuzhangyuan army now.

Of course, the main thing is that this decision does not need to be made by Wen Qin. Wen Qin handed the military newspaper back to Guo Huai.

After Guo Huai took over the military report again, he finally stabilized his mind and could continue to read it.

After reading Biqiu Jian's suggestion, Guo Huai also slowly calmed down and began to consider the feasibility of Biqiu Jian's plan.

There is one thing to say, what can be thought of by Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin is inappropriate, how can Guo Huai, a famous general, not see it.

But in the same way, Guo Huai also knew the situation of the Wuzhang Yuan Wei army that Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin could think of.

It's just that this decision is not easy to make.

The choice of continuing to confront the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan is definitely not within the scope of Guo Huai's alternatives.

Now Guo Huai has only two choices.

One, is to obey Biqiu Jian's suggestion and fight big.

As long as Meixian can be reconquered and the grain and grass can be recaptured, then even if the Shu army is released from Wuzhangyuan, it is not impossible to confront the Shu army along the Weishui coast.

Although this is done, there is a high probability that several counties along the Weishui River will be completely destroyed.

The other is to quickly find a way to withdraw the army, grab ahead of the Shu army, and be stationed in Wugong County first, and after obtaining a certain amount of supplies in Wugong County, whether it is to contact Zhang He, who is on the right side of the wind, or to cross the river and retreat to Weishui East, there are places that can be replenished along the way, at least there is no need to worry about being chased and killed by the Shu army along the way.

The former approach, although risky, but once successful, at least it will not let the entire level erode.

The latter approach, although safe, but once Meixian County is ceded, the west gate of Guanzhong, including Sanguan and Chencang Road, is opened, and the Shu army can enter and exit the Guanzhong at will, and the Wei army can only retreat to Chang'an.

Although relying on the two places of Feng Yi on the left and Fufeng on the right, plus the fortified city of Chang'an, it is not impossible to hold Guanzhong, but once Sanguan and other places are lost, the Wei army will lose the initiative in defense.

After Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu pacified the world, why didn't he continue to set the capital of Chang'an, but chose Luoyang as the capital? !

On the one hand, there are political considerations, and on the other hand, it is also because the Guanzhong area has been broken in the perennial campaign, and it is impossible to resume production in a short time. Such a Chang'an, even if it can be held, what is the use?!

Once the Shu army is allowed to enter and leave the customs at will, Chang'an will be smashed again sooner or later, and it will become a financial bottomless pit In this case, it is better to directly cede Chang'an, retreat to Wuguan and Tongguan, and keep the Central Plains.

It is not without precedent, Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor two hundred years ago, is a precedent, and the Wu Emperor ten years ago did the same.

Emperor Wu also once ignored Guanzhong, only to keep the hinterland of the Central Plains, and later after the southern expedition to Jiangdong was unfavorable, he thought that before he went to recover Guanzhong, Guanzhong had been controlled by Ma Chao and the Liangzhou warlords led by Han Sui, just showing a superficial submission.

But the problem is that such a big matter as abandoning Guanzhong is not something that Guo Huai can decide, and the current emperor of Great Wei is not Emperor Guangwu or Emperor Wu.

Emperor Guangwu and Emperor Wu dared to do this because although they did not directly occupy Guanzhong, they both had the ability to pacify or control Guanzhong, and later, they did both of them. But the opponent of the Wei army is the Shu army, and that Liu Bei will not give you a chance to return to Guanzhong.

And today's Great Wei Tianzi, although he is also a Ming monarch, but in terms of martial arts courage, he is indeed more than a little worse than Emperor Wu, once he abandons guarding Guanzhong, it is really difficult to come back to this Guanzhong.

Therefore, for Guo Huai, this order to withdraw troops is actually not too easy to order, once it is issued, it is very likely to trigger a chain reaction, causing Great Wei to completely lose control of Guanzhong.

This order can be given by the Emperor of Great Wei, but if he really has to settle the accounts after the autumn, he Guo Huai will not be able to escape responsibility.

After thinking about it, Guo Huai still felt that it would be better for him to choose to follow Biqiu Jian's advice.

Now there is about a fifteen-day surplus of grain in the army, and it takes six or seven days to return to Meixian from Wuzhangyuan, and there are nearly ten days to attack the city.

As long as Biqiu Jian can really hold back the main force of the Shu army's partial division and prevent them from reaching Meixian quickly, then this battle is not impossible to fight.

It's just that Biqiu Jian can really do it?!

3,000 cavalry, dragging more than 10,000 soldiers for a few days, this Guo Huai has no doubt that Biqiu Jian's ability should be able to do it.

But Guo Huai didn't believe that Biqiu Jian could keep dragging it out like this, after all, the Shu army was not a vegetarian, and if the more than 10,000 Shu soldiers really went to support Meixian regardless of the losses, they couldn't stop Biqiu Jian from killing.

Guo Huai was really not sure about this question, so he took the initiative to discuss it with Wen Qin.

Wen Qin not only wants to be a military general now, but also has to join the army part-time after Biqiu Jian leaves, but fortunately, Wen Qin is not given in vain, although the military experience is a little worse, but his brain is still more flexible and calm.

Therefore, Wen Qin thought for a while and said, "Didn't the general forget the governor of Chang'an Cao Du and General Zhang?!" ”

Needless to say, as soon as Guo Huai heard Wen Qin talk about Cao Zhen and Zhang He, he immediately understood.

Yes, Meixian is lost, and the most anxious person must be Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen is not the idiot of Xiahou Nan, as early as when Chencang Road was broken through and Meixian County was in an emergency, he should have sent reinforcements, and now this support army is afraid that he has left Chang'an and rushed to Meixian.

As long as Guo Huai can send people to quickly contact this support army and let them participate in the plan of counterattacking Meixian, then attacking Meixian will have another new force, so that he can divide his troops to Biqiu Jian, so that Biqiu Jian will not drag it down, but directly stop the Shu army of more than 10,000 people.

As for the Shu army in Wuzhangyuan, it is very likely that they will pursue it when they withdraw their troops and counterattack Meixian. This question can be handed over to Zhang He, who is right-winged.

Let Zhang He lead the troops to make martial arts from the right and directly threaten Wuzhangyuan, Guo Huai didn't believe it, and he Liu Bei dared to risk the threat of the flank of the army and chase and kill himself.

It's just that these things are pursuing time, and if you report to Governor Cao Zhendu and let Governor Cao Zhendu coordinate, I'm afraid it's really too late in time.

Therefore, what Guo Huai has to do now is not to risk offending Cao Zhendudu, and make a decision directly on the battlefield.

Zhang He's side is okay to say, this old general has deep qualifications, as long as he makes it clear to him, the old general should be able to distinguish the serious.

But the support army in Chang'an didn't know who the main general was.

Guo Huai could only sigh at this, and then began to write letters to Zhang He and Cao Zhen, and at the same time sent sentry agents to the east bank of Weishui to find this support army.

Now Guo Huai can only hope that whether it is Cao Zhen or Zhang He, they can endure each other for the country!!

(End of chapter)