Guo Huai is also a veteran of the battlefield, and he actually has an account in his heart about the changes in the battlefield situation.

Guo Huai didn't know that his retreat like this was likely to cause further depression in the morale of the whole army. But he really didn't have a choice.

Guo Huai understood that he had fallen for Wei Yan's strategy, so that Wei Yan was forced to retreat into the Chinese army's on-the-spot defense, which also led to the fact that Guo Huai had no way to lead the large army to march along the Weishui coast without breaking Wei Yan's department.

To put it bluntly, it was Guo Huai's army of 30,000 that was dragged down by Wei Yan's strategy.

But even so, Guo Huai still didn't think he would fail.

Yes, the Wei army's desire to fight now is not high, and the army's morale is a little scattered, but Guo Huai still believes in the organization and combat effectiveness of the forbidden army.

As long as the Great Wei Forbidden Army, as the main force, does not completely lose its combat capability, then the entire army will not have a large-scale rout.

One more. According to Guo Huai's summary of the current battle situation, the scale of the Shu army's offensive was not large, and more than 10,000 people were killed.

This amount of troops was also used separately by Wei Yan, and more than 3,000 people were divided to attack the front army, which led to the dispersion of the offensive forces.

Therefore, Guo Huai retreated into the Chinese army and took over the command of the Chinese army as soon as possible, on the one hand, he sent people to block Wu Yi and Wang Ping's subordinates who followed the former army, and on the other hand, Guo Huai concentrated his forces and began to launch an encirclement and suppression of Wei Yan.

In Guo Huai's opinion, as long as he took the lead and besieged Wei Yan, the entire battle situation would be completely won, relying on the more than 3,000 people in the front army, he would not be able to stop the main force of the Great Wei army that was freed up.

Guo Huai is not wrong, if it is in a normal combat atmosphere, this kind of response is undoubtedly a response that directly pokes at Wei Yan's soft underbelly.

But Guo Huai still overestimated the morale and will to fight of the current Wei army.

Your main generals have been forced to retreat into the Chinese army, and now the Chinese army is being fiercely attacked by the Shu army, and the main force of the Shu army may come to attack at any time in the rear. What the hell should I do, can I still escape?!

This is what most soldiers think, not only ordinary soldiers, but also in the Great Wei Forbidden Army, there are not a few people who have such thoughts.

Therefore, when Guo Huai wanted to organize the encirclement and suppression of Wei Yan, he was stunned to find that the offensive efficiency of his soldiers was really not very high.

When Guo Huai saw that his soldiers were still attacking sluggishly under his command and could not establish an effective attack, he knew that the problem was very big.

But at this time, Guo Huai still had a glimmer of hope.

In the end, there are many people, even if the offensive efficiency is relatively low, but with a large number of people, Wei Yan can be killed by heaping.

Moreover, as long as Wei Yan can be completely surrounded and this encirclement can be narrowed little by little, then the Wei soldiers will be able to raise some fighting desire and courage if the attack is smooth.

It's just that this time must not be too long. Guo Huai was also worried that the main force of the Shu army had arrived not far away.

Therefore, in order to besiege and kill Wei Yan as soon as possible, Guo Huai asked Kuaima to give an order to Wen Qin of the rear army, stop defending the rear army, and take all the soldiers and horses of the rear army to join the siege of Wei Yan.

Guo Huai's idea was very simple, let his withdrawn front army want to block the attack of Wu Yi and Wang Ping's combined army for a period of time, and he used 30,000 troops to completely encircle and suppress Wei Yan's 7,000 people, and strive to end the battle today. In this case, the delay will not be long, and there may be a chance to rush to meet Cao Zhendudu.

I have to say that Guo Huai's response is still correct.

Now Wei Yan is trapped in the Chinese army, and there are 2,000 cavalry led by Biqiu Jian in the rear to cut off the back road, although Wu Yi forced Guo Huai to withdraw into the Chinese army, but the front army did not appear in the chaos that Wei Yan expected, and the organization of Cao Wei's forbidden army is really high, and it is still blocking Wu Yi's attack. Wei Yan is really under siege this time.

Today's Wei Yan, the only choice is to give up the baggage troops that continue to attack the Chinese army, and instead break through in the direction of the front army, and strive to open up the connection with Wu Yi as soon as possible.

But this direction is also the area that Guo Huai focuses on guarding, and the key point of the entire encirclement is located.

Wei Yanneng has been supported until now, in addition to his own command ability, Wang Shuang's martial arts, and Zhuge Qian's hard work, the morale of the Wei soldiers is low, and the distraction of the army is also a very big reason.

But it didn't last long.

Once a breakthrough cannot be achieved for a long time, the morale of the Wei army will be higher and higher, and the morale of the soldiers of the Han army, when they see that there is no hope of breaking through, will become lower and lower. At that time, it is the most troublesome time.

Just when Wei Yan was getting more and more anxious, and Guo Huai was slowly calming down. Wen Qin, who was in Guo Huai's rear army, sent bad news to Guo Huai.

The envoy sent by Guo Huai to inform Wen Qin that he had come to besiege Wei Yan had returned, but what he brought back was not Wen Qin's reply that he had complied with the order.

Instead, Wen Qin rejected Guo Huai's military order and did not agree to go to besiege Wei Yan.

It's really not that Wen Qin drifted and dared to disobey the military order, but Wen Qin reported that twenty miles southwest of the rear army, the scouts found that the Shu army was rapidly approaching, with no less than 10,000 troops.

The main force of the Shu army is already behind his ass.

Wen Qin's practice of sending scouts twenty miles behind him finally paid off, and it gave Guo Huai a time to react.

Similarly, Wen Qin also asked the military envoy to reply to Guo Huai, he would take 5,000 soldiers and try his best to block the advance of the main force of the Shu army, and the rest depended on Guo Huai's own decision.

What else can Guo Huai decide. He didn't have two eyes and one black, and fainted on the spot, which is already considered to be a strong psychological quality.

Twenty miles of road, more than 10,000 troops, a normal march may take half a day, but in a state of rapid marching, it is only about two hours.

At this time, Guo Huai may be able to eat the 7,000 people of Wei Yan's department, but at that time, he will not be able to run away at all.

Even if Wen Qin can buy himself a certain amount of time to run away with 5,000 soldiers, it is really difficult to determine how long this time will last.

Last time, Wen Qin was able to rely on 5,000 people to block the main force of the Shu army in Wuzhang Yuan for five days, that was because there was a defensive city left by Wuzhang that he could rely on, but now it is a field battle, and the soldiers are still discouraged, so they want to retreat and escape, not to mention Guo Huai, even Wen Qin himself doesn't know how long he can stop it.

Moreover, this is the information that Wen Qin sent scouts to actively probe. What about the undetectable intelligence?!

Is it only the Shu army behind Wen Qin who is chasing him, and are there other Shu army troops who have now made a detour and are ready to intercept their way in front? !

This Guo Huai is really not sure.

It's not that there are no capable people in the Shu army, not to mention anything else, just that Zhang Xi, in addition to being cautious with his troops, isn't what he is best at is to run quickly At the beginning of Ji County, he just rushed ahead of himself and entered Ji County, forcing himself to only take cavalry to fight siege battles.

That battle was fought and I feel aggrieved when I think about it.

If the Shu army sent Zhang Fei to pursue all the way behind, and sent Zhang Xi to lead the troops to make a detour to block his advance route, Guo Huai would be a little afraid to think about this consequence.

And Guo Huai feels that he is not guessing.

So far, Guo Huai has always been wary of Wu Yijun's sudden appearance. This army was obviously not the county soldiers who originally belonged to Wei Yan, and it must have been separated from other Shu army troops.

If this is Zhang Xi's detour about to complete, in order to buy time to send out to intercept his own vanguard troops, then it makes perfect sense.

It's really not that Guo Huai is suspicious, it's really like this in this era, Guo Huai can't know that Zhang Xi has gone to Wugong County to stop Zhang He at this time, he always thought that Zhang Xi was still following Liu Bei's main army to act together.

Based on this understanding, Guo Huai suddenly thought about it, and the more he felt that his thoughts were very likely to be true.

The Shu army has sufficient troops, and after occupying Wuzhang Plain, the morale of the army will be greatly shaken, and there is no need for the whole army to get together to pursue themselves, and the division of troops is completely a very normal operation.

And in the Shu army array, there are many generals who can lead the troops alone, and all of them are used to pursue themselves, which is somewhat wasteful. Again, if you let Zhang Fei, Zhang Xi, Chen Dao, and Huang Quan, who will be the main general and who will be the deputy general, it is not easy to deal with the problem.

Rather than causing the overlapping roles of the main generals in the pursuing army, it is better to give full play to the respective advantages of the generals and divide the troops to pursue more efficiently.

Yes, that's what Guo Huai thinks, so now it's Guo Huai's turn to be anxious.

Behind him, the main force of the Shu army caught up, and there may be a Shu army on the flanks making a detour, trying to cut off his own march route, if he continues to entangle with Wei Yan's 7,000 soldiers here, then he is really looking for his own death.

After considering less than a cup of tea, Guo Huai immediately made a second decision.

Immediately notify Biqiu Jian and hand him over 5,000 soldiers to command with his 2,000 cavalry, the purpose of which is to delay the offensive speed of Wei Yan's army.

The remaining soldiers, abandoning their baggage, adjusted the direction of the attack, broke through the interception of Wu Yi's army in front of them, and marched to the Weishui coast with all their might.

In short, Guo Huai wants to run, desperate to escape.

(End of chapter)