The word "decapitation action" is not original to Wang Ping, but a tactic specially recorded in the military book of the Wudang Flying Army.

It is to take advantage of the enemy's negligence in defense to launch an infiltration and surprise attack on the enemy's commander-in-chief's own position, and kill the enemy's commander-in-chief, so as to completely disrupt the enemy's strategic deployment.

Well, this is really not added by Zhang Xi, but spontaneously added by Zhuge Liang after summarizing the art of war and tactics of his predecessors. At that time, Zhang Xi was dumbfounded when he saw it, and he used soldiers with the ancients, so early on he already understood the importance of beheading tactics?!

However, strictly speaking, Wang Ping does not have the conditions to launch a "decapitation operation" now.

In the handbook of the formation of the Wudang Flying Army, the premise of the expression of "decapitation operation" is that it is required to have sufficient knowledge of the enemy's intelligence, and at the same time, it is necessary to make various preparations for infiltration warfare. If you want to infiltrate, at least you have to know the enemy's military order slogan, and you must have the enemy's clothes and banners, right?!

But now, Wang Ping doesn't have any of these.

Even if Wang Ping has these conditions, this kind of decapitation is basically a life of nine deaths, and as long as it is detected, it will fall into the siege of the enemy.

The success rate is quite low.

Even if Wang Ping is not afraid of death, the more than 600 Wudang Flying Army under his command are not afraid of death, but there is no enemy intelligence, no conditions for infiltration, so he directly launched a surprise attack on the enemy commander's own position. Unless the commander of the enemy army is Sun Quan, it is no different from sending him to death.

Guo Huai is obviously not Sun Quan, he is a veteran general who has led the army for many years, and he is also a famous general with both wisdom and bravery, he is very clear about the importance of the Chinese army, and he will not do such a humiliating and brainless thing like Sun Quan.

Wang Ping led the troops to make a detour, approached Guo Huai's forward army, and after careful observation, he came to a conclusion - Guo Huai's military formation was very rigorous, and it was difficult to have the possibility of a direct assault.

Although strictly speaking, Guo Huai, as the commander of the first army, is somewhat risky to personally serve as the vanguard of the army, but at present, with the thickness of Guo Huai's military formation, Wang Ping only has 600 people, which can indeed make Guo Huai not take it seriously.

If you go on a raid, it's basically no different from looking for death.

The "decapitation operation" is not a death in vain, and the manual makes it very clear that if the conditions are not ripe, it is better not to launch such an operation than to waste the lives of soldiers in vain.

Therefore, Wang Ping was very hesitant, and while secretly following Guo Huai's front army, he was thinking about whether to launch a surprise attack, or when to launch a surprise attack.

Wang Ping was staring at Guo Huai's withdrawing troops, and Wei Yan was also staring at Guo Huai's withdrawing troops.

At this time, Wu Yi had already led the troops to arrive at the city of Meixian, and after Wu Ban's personal identification and identification, Wu Yi had already entered Meixian County and met Wei Yan.

The placement of Wu Yi's soldiers, Wu Ban did it, and the most important thing for Wu Yi now is to discuss with Wei Yan how to fight this battle next.

"Your Majesty's military order, if the thief army is attacking the city urgently, please also ask General Wei to hold on with all his might, and the reinforcements will arrive soon. If the thief army leads the troops to retreat, he also asks General Wei to choose the opportunity to go out of the city and delay the retreat of the thief army, so as to wait for the army to arrive and encircle and suppress the thief army. ”

This is the military order that Wu Yi wants to convey to Wei Yan.

From the moment Wu Yi appeared in front of him, Wei Yan knew that the Wei army was really retreating, not setting up an ambush after luring him out of the city.

I was really infected by that kid, and I became suspicious.

Knowing this, Wang Ping should not have been allowed to lead his troops out of the city in the first place, he should have directly led his troops out of the city to attack the Wei army, so Guo Huai did not dare to easily pull out the village and set up camp.

But forget it now, think about what to do now.

Guo Huaiba's retreat has not been long, and it is only an hour now, and it should not be too far, and he can catch up.

But the question is, after catching up, how to fight in order to delay Guo Huai's marching rhythm?!

If it is according to the conventional routine, sending troops to bite the rear flank of the Wei army and delay the retreat of the Wei army, then Guo Huai can completely divide 5,000 or even 10,000 troops to block the pursuing troops just now, and lead the main army to quickly move east and join Cao Zhen.

Again, now Wei Yan's troops are also seriously insufficient.

He only has more than 7,000 soldiers in his hands, and they are all soldiers from ordinary county soldiers, in terms of combat effectiveness, he can only compete with Cao Wei's ordinary county soldiers, and when he encounters the elite of the forbidden army, then Wei Yan even has to worry about whether he will be broken.

Although Wu Yi brought 3,000 Han elite Northern Army, since the formation of this army, it has only been recruited and trained for more than a year, and it has not actually been on the battlefield.

Besides, the number of 3,000 people is too small, and it is difficult to play a key role in the face of more than 30,000 Wei troops.

Therefore, we must find a way to let Guo Huai take the initiative to expose his flaws through some maneuvers and stratagems.

For this reason, Wei Yan thought for a while and said to Wu Yi, "I have a plan, please ask General Wu for details." ”

Wu Yi was stunned at the time. This Wei Yan, there is actually a time when he can speak well?!

Wu Yi has dealt with Wei Yan a lot, and he has a very deep understanding of Wei Yan's personality To be honest, if it weren't for Wei Yan's identity and status, Wu Yi would not know Wei Yan.

This thing is too unpopular to speak.

Available today. This thing would actually say something that he wanted to "refer to"?!

Wu Yi didn't believe that Wei Yan had suddenly changed his sex, so he just clenched his fists and said, "I want to hear about it." ”

Let's hear what you want to say first.

And then bar. Wu Yi understood why Wei Yan wanted to "consult" it himself.

Wei Yan thought that it would be a very taboo thing to send out all the soldiers who could still fight in Meixian now, leaving only hundreds of old and weak and injured soldiers who could not go into battle to defend the city.

But Wei Yan also has his own reasons - not enough troops, insufficient combat power, not enough people, how to complete the delaying task?!

Secondly, when Guo Huai withdrew his troops just now, although Wei Yan couldn't see it really, he could probably guess that Guo Huai was unlikely to put his headquarters in the rear army, which was a bit too dangerous.

Then there is a high probability that the baggage is in the position of the Chinese army. Wei Yan wanted to attack the Chinese army and make a posture of attacking grain and grass to force Guo Huai to take the initiative to divide his troops and weaken the defense ability of the forward or rear wing.

However, in view of the fact that the rear army is responsible for the break, the responsibilities are heavy, and Wang Ping's army is harassing, it is unlikely that Guo Huai will transfer troops from the rear wing, and the biggest possibility is to transfer troops to the Chinese army in his front army. As a result, the defenses of the front army became weak.

At that time, Wu Yi personally led his 3,000 elite Northern Army to attack Guo Huai's former army, striving to break the enemy in a battle.

This is Wei Yan's entire battle plan, Wu Yi almost wanted to scold his mother after listening to it.

Where is this battle plan, this is a death plan.

There are more than 30,000 troops on the other side, and we only add up to 10,000 people, so you dare to dispatch the whole army?!

When the time comes, if the war is defeated, it will not stop Guo Huai from withdrawing his troops, and even Meixian may not be able to keep it.

If the Wei army is allowed to recapture Meixian, won't the strategy of this Northern Expedition fail?!

No wonder this old boy wants to "refer to the details" by himself, where is this reference, this is to find his own endorsement, and he will have the responsibility to carry it together in the future.

Wu Yi didn't want to do such a risky thing, so he objected on the spot.

But Wei Yan asked Wu Yi rhetorically - in addition to this method, do we have any other ways to slow down Guo Huai's march? !

Just leaning on Wang Ping and the six hundred Wudang Flying Army outside the city?!

Are you dreaming!!

But Wu Yi also has something to say: Your method is not a way to delay the enemy's army, but a way to break the enemy in a battle.

It is true that if it succeeds, there is no need for Zhang Checai to lead the troops to come to support, as long as the raid on Guo Huai can be successful, even if Guo Huai cannot be killed, as long as Guo Huai is forced to retreat into the Chinese army, then this Wei army of more than 30,000 people will be in turmoil, and may even collapse in a battle.

But once it fails, then our people, whether it is the 7,000 defenders of Meixian, or the elite of their 3,000 Northern Army, plus Wang Ping's 600 Wudang Flying Army, all have only one result: death on the battlefield.

By the way, Guo Huai didn't have to retreat, he returned directly to the army and occupied Meixian, so that he could continue to hold on and block His Majesty's Northern Expedition.

From the perspective of the comparison of military strength, combat strength, and command ability of the generals on both sides, the probability of failure of Wei Yan's plan is much higher than the probability of success.

Wu Yi still insisted in the end, he didn't want to delay the retreat of the Wei army in this way, can't he honestly bite the rear wing troops of the Wei army?!

I will bring 3,000 northern troops, and you will send another 5,000 soldiers and horses, and leave 2,000 men for Wu Ban to defend the city, so that we will have 8,000 troops. Even if you eat the thousands of Wei troops that Guo Huai used to break off, it will be a great achievement.

Besides, if the Wei army wants to withdraw, it is not possible to join forces in one or two days, and even if they join forces, if they withdraw to the east, more than 400 miles away from Meixian County, it will be Wugong County.

Isn't there also a former general Zhang Xi leading troops to block it, and he can't run.

Unless they can find a way to cross the Weishui, reach the other side of the Weishui, and withdraw to Chang'an from the boundary of the right Fufeng, but for a while, where did the Wei army mobilize so many ships?!

You must know that the rear army led by Zhang Fei, the general of the chariot cavalry, is only a day or two away from Meixian at most, and in the past two days, let them go to collect boats, how many can they find, and how many Wei troops can cross the river?!

Once the main force of the Han Dynasty arrives, how many of the Wei troops who are eager to cross the water are willing to stay and hold on to resist?!

At that time, the army's heart will be in chaos, and our army only needs to make a posture of encirclement and drive, maybe these Wei troops will have to be driven into the water to feed Wang Ba.

Why do you have to use such a risky strategy if you don't use such a simple and easy tactic?!

Wu Yi really doesn't understand, what is Wei Yan anxious about?!

(End of chapter)