Wu Yi is indeed not Wu Ban, Wu Yi's ability is more than one grade higher than his clan brother Wu Ban.

But if you want to say that Wu Yi is stronger than Guo Huai in terms of command ability, then Wu Yi is a little too affordable.

If the two sides really want to meet on the battlefield and fight each other in formation, Wu Yi will most likely not be Guo Huai's opponent to the death, or he will not lose too badly.

But now, doesn't Wu Yi have the advantage of a sneak attack?

The distance of seven miles is not a long distance for the Han Southern and Northern Army trained by Zhang Fei and Wu Yi themselves, and this marching time is not enough to make too many defensive measures for Guo Huai.

Therefore, in terms of the first opportunity, Wu Yi is advantageous.

In terms of troops, Wu Yi is indeed in a disadvantaged position, with fewer troops than Guo Huai's, but in terms of military morale, Wu Yi's elite Northern Army wants to gain the upper hand.

After all, the Wei army chose to retreat under the condition of attacking Meixian, and the morale of the soldiers will definitely be affected, and now the Chinese army is fighting fiercely, and the situation is not clear, and the soldiers are also worried that the Shu army will catch up at any time behind them. Such a military morale can be high.

As for the Northern Army, although it was the first time to go into battle and lacked experience in the battle formation, at the beginning of the formation of this unit, it was considered to assume the responsibility of attacking the sharp edge of the Han Dynasty, and the soldiers were all carefully selected, and those with slightly poor physical fitness and a little innocent net worth were not qualified to become a member of the Northern Army.

Therefore, from the very beginning of its formation, the Northern Army has extremely high requirements for itself, and at the same time, it also has extremely high self-esteem, and even pride.

Under such circumstances, the two armies engaged in battle, which surprised the commanders of both sides.

Wu Yi was surprised that under such circumstances, Cao Wei's forbidden army could still burst out with such combat effectiveness under the command of Guo Huai. The combat power of Cao Wei's march is really not to be underestimated.

And Guo Huai was shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Shu army, which was a little outrageously strong.

For the sake of insurance, Guo Huai did leave a thousand reserves, and only sent four thousand forbidden soldiers to fight, but. There were only 3,000 people on the other side.

The 4,000 Great Wei forbidden army fought the 3,000 Shu army, and it was absolutely unscientific to be able to fight evenly matched!!

Guo Huai fought from Liangzhou to Yongzhou, and had experience in fighting all kinds of Shu troops.

The county soldiers of Yizhou, the mandarin duck soldiers under Zhang Fei, and the white soldiers of Chen Zhi. The combat effectiveness is strong and weak, and Guo Huai has seen it.

Among them, the most difficult one must be the Mandarin Duck soldiers under Zhang Fei, and the strongest combat power is the Yizhou County soldiers under Chen Zhi's Bai Yu soldiers, just like that, that is, the level of ordinary Cao Army, compared with Cao Wei's forbidden army, it is still a little worse.

During this time, Guo Huai fought with Wei Yan, and it was basically certain that Wei Yan's soldiers should be the county soldiers of Shudi, and their combat effectiveness was not too high.

So. Where did this Shu army, which is so powerful, come from?!

The more Guo Huai observed, the more unsightly his face became.

The Shu army in front of him now is absolutely impossible to be an ordinary Shu county soldier.

This Shu army, judging from the equipment, has a very high armor coverage rate, and all of them are all black iron armor.

It is not surprising that the Xuantie armor is the standard armament that has been equipped with the troops since the pre-Han Dynasty, and now the Great Wei, which has accepted the Chan concession of the Han Dynasty, the standard equipment of the Central Forbidden Army, is also the Xuantie armor.

But this armor rate is a bit too high!

Because of the wars and turmoil in the past few decades, not only the people have a hard time, but even the imperial army is difficult to maintain the army's large-scale equipment like the two Han Dynasty.

Even the Great Wei, which occupies the most elite of the world in the Central Plains and Hebei, can only make most of the Central Forbidden Army equipped with Xuantie armor, and the soldiers of other counties in other places are basically armor mixed with leather armor and Xuantie armor.

But in this Shu army's attacking troops, except for a very small number of archers, the armor coverage rate has almost reached more than ninety percent, and all of them are Xuantie armor.

With the economic capacity of Shudi, how did Liu Bei do it?! Where did Liu Bei get so much iron?!

I haven't heard that there is a large-scale iron production place in Shuzhong or Jingzhou!!

Let's talk about the ordnance in my hand. What these Shu soldiers held in their hands was not the ring-head knife of the county soldiers, but a knife that was longer than the ring-head knife, but with a narrower blade.

This knife can be used not only with one hand, but also with both hands, and most importantly. Obviously, the material of these knives is better than the material of the ring-headed knife of the forbidden army.

Guo Huai had heard from Man Chong and General Cao Ren that some of the soldiers in the Jingzhou Army were equipped with such knives, but there were not many troops, but there were only thousands of people. It can't be that these soldiers came from Jingzhou, right?!

This possibility is too absurd, no matter how much Guo Huai opens his brain, he will not believe this possibility. But no matter what, this army is definitely not the county soldiers who originally belonged to Wei Yan.

This had to make Guo Huai think more.

Could it be that the main force of the Shu army behind them has already caught up, and even, they have already caught up with their former army? !

If that's the case, it's troublesome!!

If the main force of the Shu army was only a few people, then Guo Huai was not too anxious. But what if Zhang Xi, Zhang Fei and others personally led the troops to catch up?!

Thinking of this, Guo Huai suddenly became anxious.

He must break this strange Shu army as soon as possible, and then immediately lead his troops to relieve the siege of the Chinese army, and then speed up the march, and join Cao Zhendu as soon as possible, if it is a little later, he may not be able to escape.

Guo Huai was indeed a little anxious, and he didn't dare to keep another hand, so he hurriedly sent a thousand reserves to stay by his side, striving to use the numerical advantage to break the Shu army led by Wu Yi as soon as possible.

And in this way, Wu Yi is a little struggling.

In terms of command level, Wu Yi is really not weak, but he can't stand the small number of troops, and the soldiers are not experienced enough in battle formations.

On several occasions, the Han soldiers relied on this military superiority and had already gained the upper hand, and they could completely take advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle, but Wu Yi's military orders were passed to the below, and when they were executed below, too much time was wasted, causing the Wei army to breathe a sigh of relief and come up again.

This is the reason for the lack of battlefield experience, and Wu Yi can't blame anyone.

At that time, Wu Yi was attacking with 3,000 Northern Army, but Guo Huai only sent 4,000 Wei soldiers to fight, and there were still 1,000 reserves in his hands, but now, Guo Huai did not spare all the troops, and Wu Yi was very difficult to deal with.

It's not that Wu Yi is going to be defeated, even if the troops are insufficient, even if the soldiers are not experienced enough, but it is not difficult to hold on for a while.

But the problem is that Wu Yi's purpose is not to contain Guo Huai's front army, he wants to find a way to break Guo Huai's front army, at least to force Guo Huai to retreat into the Chinese army and hold on to the spot.

Being pressed and beaten by others, how can you achieve your strategic goals?!

Wu Yi was angry and anxious.

The angry thing is that the Northern Army of the Great Han Dynasty, which has been trained for more than a year, was actually pressed and beaten by the Great Wei Forbidden Army. Even if there is a gap in strength, how embarrassing it is to say this.

What's anxious is that if he can't get rid of this passive situation, then the pressure on General Wei Yan, who is attacking the Chinese army, will be really great.

There are more than 7,000 against 10,000 people, and if one is not good, the whole army will be wiped out.

Therefore, Wu Yi really wanted to break his head, but he still couldn't find any good way.

Just when Wu Yi was about to despair, wondering whether to temporarily preserve the vitality and withdraw from the army, and then go to the position of the Chinese army to pick up Wei Yan. Sudden mutations.

In the mountains and forests on the other side of Guo Huai's army, hundreds of soldiers suddenly appeared and rushed straight to Guo Huai's army's main formation.

And the reason why Wu Yi was ecstatic and Guo Huai's face changed greatly was that this army of hundreds of soldiers was fighting under the banner of the Great Han.

Yes, it's Wang Ping.

Wang Ping, who had been hiding in the mountains and forests for two days and had been standing still, suddenly came out of the mountains and forests with six hundred Wudang Feijun troops at this most critical time and appeared on the other side of the battlefield.

At this time, Guo Huai had completely sent out the reserves in his hand, and his Chinese army was now only guarded by less than 100 people.

Faced with such a good opportunity, the ecstatic Wu Yi immediately ordered the whole army to counterattack, regardless of the cost of casualties, he must drag the Wei army in front of him, and not let these Wei troops return to help a single soldier.

On the other side, Guo Huai looked at the more than 600 Shu soldiers who rushed towards him with a pale face, and calculated his own escort combat strength, even if his own guards were also elite, it was too reluctant to let them fight six against one.

Guo Huai hesitated a little on the question of whether to leave or stay, and finally decided to recall the former sergeants and soldiers and withdraw to the Chinese army for defense.

The Shu army in front of you is not important, as long as you ensure your safety, you will have the opportunity to counterattack back at any time.

But if you are stupid and waiting for death here, once you are killed, the whole army will be leaderless, that is the most fatal thing.

Relying only on Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin, their qualifications are too shallow, and they can't command so many soldiers at all.

As for the question of whether the Shu army has reached the chase army, let's find a way after retreating to the Chinese army, and now I have no choice.

In this way, Guo Huai issued an order for the front army to retreat and led the troops to withdraw to the Chinese army.

(End of chapter)