Chapter 568: Wen Qin Left Behind
At the strategy meeting, the four people expressed their stance and came to a three-to-one conclusion, so the four reached an agreement, adopted the strategy of Pang Tong, and handed it over to Liu Bei, who made the final decision.
Soon, Liu Bei gave his own answer, adopted Pang Tong's strategy, and adjusted the strategic response.
Zhang Xi was given the task of leading 20,000 troops to seize Wugong County, and at the right time, he independently chose whether to cross the river and attack Chang'an.
Yes, the number of troops that Zhang Xi wants to lead has increased, and this is actually the consequence of Zhuge Liang's pandering.
Zhuge Liang, the dead fish head, this time it was as if he had completely subverted the character design, and strongly supported Pang Tong's adventure plan, and also helped Pang Tong find a loophole in the river crossing plan - if Zhang Xi's sneak attack on Chang'an was unfavorable, and Wugong County was occupied by Zhang He when he was about to retreat, Zhuge Liang suggested that Zhang Xi could directly march to the right to support the wind and contact the mediocre Kou Feng Mengda to send troops to respond.
But instead of retreating, he directly occupied the right side of the wind, which in turn cut off Zhang He's back road.
After all, in the entire Youfufeng area, the army that Zhang He can control and command will not exceed 15,000 people, and even if Zhang He wants to lead the troops to attack Wugong County, he has to leave a part of the soldiers to watch the house, and the army he can bring with him will not exceed 10,000 at most.
In this way, as long as Zhang Xi left 5,000 people to garrison Wugong County, it would be difficult for Zhang He to break through, and at that time, if Zhang Xi still had 15,000 people, whether it was a sneak attack on Chang'an, or a change of route to attack Youfufeng and change homes with Zhang He, it would be a breeze.
At that time, it is not a question of whether Zhang He should continue to attack Wugong County, but whether Zhang He should return to the aid of Youfufeng, or even rescue Chang'an.
Based on this, Zhuge Liang supported Pang Tong's plan to cross the river.
As for the direction of Meixian, Zhuge Liang also believes that Wei Yan is more likely to capture Meixian. If Wei Yan hadn't captured Meixian, then Guo Huai wouldn't have had to withdraw his troops in such a hurry.
Although Meixian is a little farther away from Chang'an, the infantry march is only about ten days.
And now, it has been more than 20 days since Wei Yan marched into Chencang Dao, even if Chang'an reacts slowly, reinforcements should have been sent at this time, if Meixian is not lost, Guo Huai has no need to rush back to the army, because the reinforcements from Chang'an are enough to support Meixian.
As long as Chang'an sent 10,000 reinforcements to Meixian, it was almost impossible for Wei Yan's 20,000 men to conquer Meixian, which was garrisoned by 12,000 people, and there was no need for Guo Huai to withdraw his troops from the Wuzhangyuan front.
Therefore, after Zhuge Liang's own analysis, he is still more inclined to support Pang Tong's strategic plan in the case that Wei Yan has already broken through Meixian, which is a logical thing.
The four of them have already made a decision, so even if Zhang Xi's strategy is not adopted, he still has to accept what he should do.
However, before Zhang Xi led his troops to seize Wugong County, Wen Qin's 5,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalry were the first problem that needed to be solved.
If you don't break through this part of the Wei army left behind, there is no way to talk about the response plan after that.
As for how to break through this part of the Wei army. This doesn't require Zhang Xi to worry about anything.
Now Guo Huai has led the army to retreat. Once the army has withdrawn, it is very troublesome and quite unrealistic to come back to the rescue.
Therefore, it is basically impossible for the Wei army left behind to get any reinforcements.
Although this Wei army seems to have 2,000 cavalry to call on, the infantry has only 5,000 men and occupies only one camp. This is even worse than the historical Ma Jian Shou Street Pavilion, which brought more than 10,000 people.
On the attacking side, although it was not the five or six thousand cavalry when Zhang He attacked Jieting in history, the total number of infantry of the Han army this time was as high as 50,000, which was almost a ratio of ten to one, which was more terrible than five or six thousand cavalry.
At this time, the Han army no longer needed to play any strategy, just attack.
In addition, the general who led the attack was Zhang Fei. is not only a veteran of a hundred battles, but also a famous general in the world who trembles when Zhang He sees it.
Wen Qin is really uncomfortable now, both physically and psychologically.
Physiologically, in the face of the siege of more than 20,000 troops commanded by Zhang Fei, Wen Qin only had 5,000 people to defend, as the chief general of the whole army, he had to be on the front line to command, boost the morale of the whole army, and at the same time he had to join the battlefield to help the guards run back and forth several times to save the danger, and he was really tired enough.
Mentally. Wen Qin didn't want to think about it.
On the one hand, thousands of people are facing the siege of tens of thousands of people, and trying to stabilize the defense line is a very psychologically stressful thing in itself, not to mention that Guo Huai also asked him to hold on for ten days. The bottom line is also to hold on for five days.
On the other hand, this belongs to Wen Qin's own psychological gap.
In the early years, when the "Wei Sarcasm Case" had not yet broken out, Wen Qin was also praised as a "young general" in Yecheng, and was praised by many people as having "the qualifications of a famous general." But now, when he really met a famous general in the world, Wen Qin knew how big the gap was between himself and the real famous general.
Although he lacks battlefield experience, Wen Qin thinks that he belongs to the kind of general who has a strategy, and Zhang Fei on the other side is not famous for his martial arts?!
As a result, after a day of defense, Wen Qin had a deep sense of powerlessness.
No matter what kind of response he makes, Zhang Fei can make adjustments in the shortest possible time, and always presses himself to attack, even if Wen Qin uses cavalry support, he still can't turn the tide of the battle.
Of course, there is a reason for the lack of troops, but this feeling of being completely suppressed by others makes Wen Qin have a very strong sense of frustration in his heart.
It turns out that the so-called "young general" is such a big gap between himself and the real famous generals of the time? !
I didn't have the power to fight back at all, so I could only be beaten passively!!
After a day of defense, Wen Qin was still holding on to his camp, and he was not breached by Zhang Fei, but. With more than 500 soldiers and more than 200 cavalry killed and wounded in one day, Wen Qin really didn't know how many days he could hold out.
Fighting a war is not a game, the soldier will not hold out for you to the last person, the battle damage reaches a certain level, the soldier will collapse, at that time, no matter how you supervise the battle, the soldier should run or run, if you don't let you run, you will directly mutiny and escape, and you may even run again.
In one day of defense, the total number of casualties added up to more than 700 people. At the end of four days, the casualties were close to four.
The average soldier, the casualty rate is close to three achievements, there will be a rout, to the fourth achievement should be defeated, to fifty percent is not defeated, except for those elite, such as the forbidden army, other soldiers can't bear it.
If calculated according to this ratio, Wen Qin was very sad to find that he might not be able to carry the fifth day.
Wen Qin's soldiers are not elites, just ordinary soldiers, if they hold on like this for five days, they will definitely not be able to hold on. A way has to be found.
Can. Wen Qin thought about it all night, but he really couldn't think of any good way.
After all, there is too much difference in the number of troops, and this is not a ploy that can be reversed.
Wen Qin could only adopt a more primitive method, taking advantage of the truce between the two armies, to seize the time to repair the repelling antlers, as well as repair the camp, and let himself have more defensive facilities as much as possible.
And after a day of offensive and defensive battles, Zhang Fei's side also gave Wen Qin a high evaluation.
"This person is also a little bold, several attacks, all of which were blocked by this person, if you want to conquer it, it will take some time!"
This is Zhang Fei's evaluation of Wen Qin.
After all, at Zhang Fei's level, it is already very important to be able to easily give such an evaluation, but Zhang Fei still doesn't think that it will take much time for him to conquer this camp.
For Zhang Fei, the only thing that was more uncomfortable was the opponent's cavalry troops, but because the opponent's guards had to take care of both, they could not personally command the cavalry troops, so when the cavalry troops went out of the camp to relieve the siege on the first day, although it caused some trouble to Zhang Fei, it still failed to turn the tide of the battle.
Moreover, Zhang Fei is also an experienced general, Zhang Fei has seen a lot of cavalry, and there is no shortage of crossbowmen in today's army.
Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Fei now has enough troops, and he really loses.
On the first day of the attack, Wen Qin's men suffered more than 700 casualties, and Zhang Fei's side actually suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, but Wen Qin was distressed and couldn't afford to lose, but Zhang Fei really didn't take it to heart.
It's not a question of who is cold-blooded or not, what is important these years is whether Ci is in charge of the army, Wen Qin suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and he was not distressed for the death of the soldiers, he was just worried that he would not be able to hold the camp.
If the Lord really "sucks the pawn" for the soldiers, that is the most fatal time. That means the Lord is going to need you to fight hard, and most likely it's the kind of battle you won't survive.
Well, that's a lot of.
All in all, Wen Qin was trying his best to maintain, Zhang Fei was also increasing the attack, and Guo Huai at this time was ordering the whole army to march quickly to Meixian.
Guo Huai had to speed up his march, on the one hand, to save his own military rations, and on the other hand, not to give the Shu army a chance to gain a foothold in Meixian.
However, Wuzhangyuan is still a little far from Meixian, and even if Guo Huai speeds up the march, it will take four or five days to really reach Meixian County.
At this time, Cao Zhen, who had not seemed to have much news for a long time, had already led 15,000 Cao Wei forbidden troops to march down from the east side of Linmei County.
This speed was two days earlier than Wei Yan expected.
In other words, if Biqiu Jian could delay Wu Ban's army for another two days, then even Wei Yan would not dare to go out of the city to meet Wu Ban when Cao Zhen's army was pressing. Fortunately, God bless the man.
However, even so, the speed of Cao Zhen's arrival was still beyond Wei Yan's expectations.
And the troops brought by Cao Zhen, Wei Yan only took a slightly cursory look, and suddenly remembered his stillborn Chang'an sneak attack plan If Wu Ban was not dragged by Biqiu Jian, then this time, maybe he could really establish a miracle of the world.
Unfortunately, these can only exist in assumptions, and it is useless to think too much.
Now that the enemy army has already approached the city, and the number of troops has exceeded 10,000, then defend the city with peace of mind.
(End of chapter)