Biqiu Jian brought 3,000 cavalry, the purpose of which was to find the main force of the Shu army led by Wu Ban.

But to tell the truth, Biqiu Jian was also anxious, he didn't know where the leader of the Wu Ban army had arrived, if the Shu army marched fast enough, the waste of two days was enough for the main force of the Shu army and the front soldiers in Meixian County.

Although Biqiu Jian put forward a plan to counterattack Meixian, Biqiu Jian also knew that whether he could find it in time and intercept the main force of the Shu army and create time for Guo Huai to return to Meixian was the most important part of the whole plan.

At this point, Biqiu Jian doesn't have much confidence, he can only do his best.

But. The reinforcements sent by Sun Li delayed Wu Ban's trip for half a day by mistake, and finally let Biqiu Jian find it.

It's just that Biqiu Jian didn't know that Sun Li had also sent reinforcements, and what he saw was just more than 10,000 Shu troops besieging the Wei army of more than 3,000 people. After all, Biqiu Jian still chose to kill the Shu army and take over his own people.

Biqiu Jian also has his own considerations.

Yes, he brought cavalry, although the cavalry had a natural restraint advantage over the foot soldiers, but after all, he brought few soldiers, and he didn't know what the combat effectiveness of the Shu army in front of him was.

In addition, the besieged own people are all infantry.

Once this infantry is received, and then the infantry is used to block the way of the Shu army, and he leads the cavalry to assault, let alone stop the more than 10,000 Shu army, it is to completely defeat this Shu army, and Biqiu Jian is sure.

Based on these considerations, Biqiu Jian suddenly led the cavalry to appear on the battlefield, and did not attack the Chinese army where Wu Ban was located at the first time, but made a detour, found a weak point of encirclement, cut into the battlefield in one fell swoop, tore open the encirclement, and took out the more than 3,000 central forbidden troops left after the battle of Zhu Zan and death.

This made Wu Ban breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he hurriedly gathered his own soldiers, united with Wang Ping's remaining more than 1,500 Wudang Fei troops, and set up a defensive position.

When he saw the Wei cavalry appear just now, Wu Ban was really a little flustered.

At that time, Wu Ban's attention was on how to encircle and suppress the Wei army led by Zhu Zan, and Wu Ban did not have any defense against the sudden appearance of Biqiu Jian.

On the plain terrain of Guanzhong, once the three thousand cavalry rushed up to speed, they directly attacked their own formation. Wu Ban is absolutely irresistible.

Even if the commander of this cavalry has a stronger ability to control the battlefield and is more proficient in the command of the cavalry, he can completely defeat the more than 10,000 soldiers of Wu Ban by relying on the roundabout impact back and forth.

The cavalry is against the infantry, and the advantage of restraint of the arms is too great.

But Biqiu Jian is still young after all, he may be strategic, but he doesn't have much battlefield experience, and he is not a professional cavalry commander, so the choice he made was only to pick up Zhu Zan, but it also gave Wu Ban enough time to react.

By the time Biqiu Jian took over Zhu Zan, the reorganization of the army was completed, and Wu Ban had already gathered his soldiers and put out a defensive formation.

Just now, Wu Ban's whole army was besieging Zhu Zan, and the external defense measures were insufficient, and at that time, if Biqiu Jian attacked, Wu Ban really couldn't adjust the defense line in time, after all, the speed of the cavalry was too fast.

But now, Wu Ban regathered his soldiers and set up a circular formation to defend, and the two armies reconfronted each other.

This is the result of the lack of battlefield experience, but . It's already like this, and it's useless to think about it.

Besides, now in Biqiu Jian's hands, there are not only 3,000 cavalry, but also 3,300 central forbidden troops.

Biqiu Jian talked to Zhu Zan, and after learning that this was the elite of the forbidden army sent back by Sanguan to rescue Meixian, he was immediately full of confidence.

6,300 people against more than 11,000 people on the opposite side, and still occupy the advantage of troops, Biqiu Jian is confident that he can completely defeat this enemy army in the front, let alone just delay these people and prevent them from going to Meixian.

And here, Wu Ban finally met with Wang Ping and asked about Wang Ping's origin and purpose, as well as . What now?!

Strictly speaking, Wu Ban and Wang Ping's missions failed.

Although Wang Ping has been dragging the forbidden army of Zhu Zan's department all the way, he really did not let Zhu Zan's department successfully rescue Meixian. But now, Zhu Zan and Biqiu Jian have joined forces, which is tantamount to falling short.

As for Wu Ban, his military order was to quickly go to Meixian to join Wei Yan, and now he was only about fifty miles away from Meixian, but he was intercepted by the Wei army here.

Wang Ping and Wu Ban did not open the perspective of God, they could not have known that the purpose of Biqiu Jian's coming was to prevent them from going to Meixian to meet Wei Yan From the perspective of the conventional battlefield, the current situation was not suitable for them to rush to Meixian regardless of it.

If everyone is infantry, then Wang Ping and Wu Ban can still lead the army to fight and retreat, after all, it is not far from Demei County, and if they withdraw another thirty miles, Wei Yan will definitely send troops to respond, and more than 10,000 soldiers, at least more than ninety percent can be safely withdrawn to Meixian.

But now the problem is that the Wei army had three thousand cavalry.

The speed of the cavalry is fast and the impact is strong, and if the infantry wants to fight against the cavalry, in addition to relying on the superiority of troops to form a defensive formation on the spot, there is actually no very good way.

Once the Wu Ban led the army to retreat, it was impossible to ensure adequate defense during the retreat, and once the Wei cavalry interspersed several times with back and forth. Fifty miles is enough to completely overwhelm his marching troops.

At that time, the 10,000 infantry could be routed at any time.

Therefore, Wu Ban and Wang Ping discussed for a while, and finally decided to stick to the place, and at the same time sent scout messengers to inform General Wei Yan, who decided whether to fight or retreat.

From this battlefield to Meixian, it was only two days to go back and forth, and from the perspective of time, this decision was not a mistake.

But Wang Ping was a little worried after all, although General Wei's troops still had thousands of people, he was also leading infantry, and he was at a disadvantage in the face of cavalry.

If the enemy commander ignores his own people, with the mobility of cavalry, he will sneak attack General Wei's receiving troops. The consequences are unimaginable.

Wu Ban was not too worried about this.

Although General Wei's popularity among his colleagues is not very good, his ability to lead troops into battle is still more recognized by everyone, and it is impossible for General Wei to think of things that we can imagine.

If General Wei really led his troops to meet everyone, he would definitely be fully prepared, and it would never be possible to give the enemy general such a chance to make a surprise attack.

In fact, after receiving Wu Ban's military information, Wei Yan was indeed seriously considering.

Wu Ban is still very reliable, he wrote very detailed in the military report to Wei Yan, and he did not hide any of the predicament he was currently experiencing, which allowed Wei Yan to have enough first-hand information.

Now Wei Yan knew that there were more than 6,000 Wei troops who intercepted and blocked Wu Ban on the way, of which 3,000 were cavalry and 3,000 were Cao Wei's central forbidden army.

This is not a premeditated meeting of two troops. Although Wu Ban didn't know how the 3,000 cavalry of the Wei army came from, through the exchange with Wang Ping, Wu Ban still knew that the more than 3,000 central forbidden troops were sent by Sun Li to pick up Meixian.

As for the intelligence of the cavalry, Wu Ban only knew the words "Biqiu" written on the general flag of the cavalry commander, and as for who it was, Wu Ban did not know.

In fact, Wei Yan didn't know, but Wei Yan was a general who was good at using his brain.

Biqiu Jian's reputation was not obvious at this time, and he was promoted to the army by Guo Huai, so the Han Dynasty's meticulous work did not collect much information about Biqiu Jian.

But Wei Yan can roughly judge the current situation after a little analysis.

There are only a few places in the entire Guanzhong where Cao's army is stationed, and Wang Ping's testimony can rule out that this cavalry came from Sanguan, and Wei Yan himself entered Guanzhong from the Meridian Valley and has not seen this cavalry. This shows that this cavalry either came from Chang'an, or returned from Wuzhangyuan to help.

If it is from Chang'an, it is bound to bypass Meixian, and Wei Yan cannot not know anything about it, so Wei Yan judged that this cavalry, with a very high possibility, was withdrawn from Wuzhangyuan and prepared to rescue Meixian.

This judgment is very crucial for Wei Yan to make decisions next.

Wei Yan always thought that his march was very fast, and until now, the Wei army in Wuzhangyuan may not have reacted. But it turned out that the Wei army in Wuzhangyuan had already sent a cavalry team of 3,000 people back to Meixian, and it was not that they were ignorant of the situation in Meixian.

Now that the news of the loss of Meixian County, the Wei army must have known it, and judging from the purpose of this cavalry team, the Wei army obviously wanted to prevent its rear army from joining up with itself in Meixian as much as possible. The purpose is already obvious.

Just as Zhuge Liang and the others expected before the war, the Wei army wanted to counterattack Meixian and recapture the grain and grass.

Things have developed to this point, Wei Yan has nothing to feel except sorry, if Wu Ban can arrive in Meixian County two days earlier, now Wei Yan has burned the grain and grass in Meixian County and led troops to attack Chang'an.

But now the word. Wei Yan could only give up his trick and choose to stick to Meixian.

In this case, there is no point in discussing the strange plan of sneak attack on Chang'an, it is better to use the grain and grass in Meixian County to attract the Wei army to gather under Meixian County, and create conditions for the main Han force in Wuzhangyuan to encircle the Wei army.

After all, even if the whole Wei army returned to the city of Wuzhangyuan, their grain and grass would not be able to support it for a few days, right?!

That's an army of nearly 50,000 people.

As for the Wu Ban Department. This is indeed a trouble, and we must find a way to bring Wu Ban and the others back before the main force of the Wei army arrives in Meixian.

Otherwise, once the main force of the Wei army arrives at the city of Meixian, Wu Ban's headquarters will become a lone army, and it will be swallowed by the Wei army at any time.

But how to deal with this is a technical job.

(End of chapter)