Chapter 619: Rout
Guo Huai's military order is actually not very responsible.
As the commander-in-chief, in less than half an hour, two completely unrelated, or even somewhat opposite military orders were issued, which could easily cause confusion in the execution process of the sergeants.
The soldiers of the Chinese army on the front foot were still trying to encircle and kill Wei Yan, and the back foot suddenly changed the direction of the attack, and they wanted to choose to break through to the front army. What if Wei Yan seizes the opportunity and bites it?!
You asked Biqiu Jian to lead 5,000 foot soldiers and 2,000 cavalry to delay Wei Yan, but what is the morale of these 5,000 foot soldiers, and how Biqiu Jian, who is on the periphery of the battlefield, should pass through the Shu army sandwiched in the middle to command, you have no explanation.
The most important thing is that the front army and the middle army have all changed the direction of attack, so what should the thousands of people in the rear army do?! Wen Qinjun, who is in charge of the broken Wen Qin Army, who will take the withdrawal?!
Guo Huai's military order was very vague and irresponsible, and it looked like Guo Huai had reduced his intelligence.
Guo Huai didn't reduce his intelligence in the end, he couldn't help it.
Under Guo Huai's brain prediction, even if he could get rid of Wei Yan's entanglement, Wen Qin could block the pursuit of the Shu army in the rear, and he would have to face the interception of Zhang Xi's troops in front.
Therefore, Guo Huai must compete with Zhang Xi for time while ensuring vitality.
If there is a chance, of course, Guo Huai also wants to take all the more than 30,000 Wei soldiers to withdraw to Chang'an, but now, under Guo Huai's brain, Guo Huai believes that the Shu army will not give himself such a chance.
After a little weighing, Guo Huai had no choice but to ruthlessly abandon some of the soldiers and choose to save the forbidden army as much as possible, after all, even if the forbidden army troops retreated and fled in this situation, at least they could still have organization and combat effectiveness.
As for the other county soldiers, Guo Huai really couldn't take care of it. How much can I escape.
Therefore, Guo Huai's military order, although it will be a little chaotic for the forbidden soldiers with a relatively high degree of organization, it is not too difficult to implement after all. The average degree of organization of the county soldiers, that is, how much can keep up, Guo Huai no longer cares.
As for the two young generals, Wen Qin and Biqiu Jian Guo Huai are really not worried about these two.
Neither of them is incompetent, and after seeing the purpose of their march, they will definitely understand their intentions, and they will definitely not really hold on to one side. The Guanzhong Plain is so big, it is not difficult for the two of them to find a way to escape.
Therefore, after Guo Huai's readjustment, the offensive focus of the entire Wei army changed, and at the same time, there was inevitably a great chaos within the Wei army.
These confusions were all caused by those soldiers who didn't know how to adjust the direction of their attacks, not only the county soldiers, but also some Cao Wei forbidden troops who were in the front-line combat sequence and were besieging Wei Yan's army.
And Guo Huai didn't wait for all these soldiers to be adjusted in place, and directly took the future of thousands of soldiers of the forbidden army who had already been adjusted, and counterattacked in the direction of Wu Yi.
The other soldiers behind him, those who can keep up can't keep up, so Guo Huai can't help it.
And Guo Huaijun's sudden change made Wei Yan, who was still fighting hard, somewhat unable to deal with it, not to mention Wu Yi and Wang Ping, who were still trying to attack.
Wei Yan was still struggling to block the encirclement of the Wei army, putting on a defensive posture, but now, there was chaos within the Wei army itself, not to mention that there was no threat to attack, and even retreated and put on a defensive formation.
Wu Yi is even more headless.
A moment ago, Wu Yi was still beating the Wei army defending the front army, who would have thought that Guo Huai would suddenly come to the aid with thousands of soldiers, and directly counterattacked the attack, repelling Wu Yi's attack in one fell swoop, and after repelling Wu Yi's army, he did not pursue at all, and directly turned the direction and went towards the Weishui coast.
Wu Yi was in a hurry at that time, and wanted to follow the direction of Guo Huai's advance, but if he thought about it carefully, he only had 3,000 people, and the Wei army that broke through behind Guo Huai was at least six or seven thousand, and this number may continue to increase as the breakthrough operation continues.
If you really want to force the other party to be anxious, your own 3,000 people may not be able to beat each other.
Since this is the case, let's go and answer General Wei Yan first, and it is better to pick up Wei Yan from the encirclement.
And Wu Yi's decision made Wei Yan angry and anxious.
What's anxious is that Wu Yi's judgment is completely wrong, at this time, Wu Yi should pursue and delay Guo Huaijun's escape at all costs, instead of coming to pick him up.
And the angry thing is to think about it calmly, Wu Yi's approach is really right.
In the end, it is that the troops in their hands are too small, the quality of the soldiers is not good, and the combat effectiveness is insufficient. Of these three disadvantages, if one is missing, Wu Yi will not give up the army that pursued Guo Huai's escape, and turn to meet him.
This is what makes Wei Yan really angry - he can only watch Guo Huai lead the army to break through, and the little force he has at hand can only delay Guo Huai to this point.
The only thing that makes Wei Yan fortunate is that he still delayed Guo Huai's march for half a day, and at the same time, when Guo Huai withdrew the army, he threw down at least 10,000 soldiers, and these soldiers have completely fallen into a state of chaos and collapse after being abandoned by Guo Huai.
Since he is no longer able to catch up with Guo Huai, Wei Yan will be too sorry for himself if he doesn't accept this "big gift" left by Guo Huai.
Therefore, Wei Yan also gave up the practice of defending in place and waiting for rescue at the beginning, and turned to cooperate with Wu Yi and Wang Ping, who were attacking, to open the passage between the two, complete the joint force as soon as possible, and then cover the rear army of the Wei army.
And Biqiu Jian, who was supposed to be in charge of containment, scolded angrily after seeing Guo Huai leading the troops to break through alone.
Where is this retreat, this is defeat, a large-scale defeat.
Regarding Guo Huai's escape with the forbidden army, leaving most of the county soldiers to fend for themselves, Biqiu Jian also quite unaccustomed to the fact that this is not the responsibility that a coach should have.
But. Now no matter how much Biqiu Jian scolds, he has no choice, and the situation on the battlefield has shown one-sidedness.
Originally, there was a problem with Guo Huai's military order, Biqiu Jian was behind Wei Yanjun to command the cavalry to fight, but Guo Huai asked Biqiu Jian to coordinate the command of the five thousand foot soldiers in front of Wei Yanjun to contain Wei Yanjun There is no mobile phone in these years, not to mention the two or three miles between the cavalry and the infantry, and there is a Wei Yanjun in the middle, how do you let Biqiu Jian command.
And speaking of which, you Guo Huai Danfan didn't retreat so fast a little, give Biqiu a little time, so that he can take the cavalry on a detour and go to join the foot soldiers, and there are still a dozen. But you Guo Huai ran away after giving the military order, and didn't give Biqiu Jian any time to react, what can Biqiu Jian do? !
Your boss has run away, and those foot soldiers who stayed to contain Wei Yan, who can still have the heart to fight for you?!
When he saw Wei Yan trying to cooperate with Wu Yi to attack the 5,000 Wei troops who were left behind to contain him, Biqiu Jian was anxious and desperately ordered the cavalry to prepare for a surprise attack, preparing to use the cavalry assault method regardless of casualties to contain Wei Yan's attack and fight for a way for those infantrymen to survive.
But. The infantry were defeated too quickly.
According to Biqiu Jian's idea, he is the chief general of the remaining and containment troops, and although the five thousand foot soldiers in front of him cannot be directly commanded, these soldiers should know where they are, at least they must hold on and wait for their rescue, right?!
But Wu Yi had just been killed over there, and Wei Yan had not started a formal counterattack here, so the infantry suddenly broke out into confusion, and then began to scatter and flee.
In that case, the soldiers chose to flee in order to survive, which is understandable, but you were defeated so quickly, doesn't it mean that my side is not prepared at all.
Biqiu Jian was also speechless, after all, he had too little experience in the army, and it was the first time he saw with his own eyes on the battlefield what it means to be defeated. There are some things that he really can't do if he wants to.
And now for Biqiu Jian, there is still a fatal problem to solve - what should he do next?!
The infantry in front has collapsed, once Wei Yan and Wu Yi join forces, nearly 10,000 horses will reflexively kill themselves, and they will only have 2,000 cavalry, and they will be in the defeated army, and the morale of the army will be almost lost, and they will definitely not be able to defeat it.
Therefore, Biqiu Jian must also consider his own retreat.
And at this time, Biqiu Jian thought of the rear army.
On the rear army, there are at least seven or eight thousand soldiers, and Wen Qin's ability to command Wen Qin is not bad at all.
As long as Wen Qin can barely maintain the morale and formation of his soldiers, then with the cooperation of his two thousand cavalry, it is not difficult to break through.
Thinking of this, Biqiu Jian immediately led the cavalry and quickly went to the rear army to support.
But as soon as Biqiu Jian led the cavalry to speed, and before he even ran out two miles, he saw a large number of defeated troops coming from the rear. They are all defeated soldiers of their own country.
Biqiu Jian was confused, how could the speed of the rear army's defeat and retreat be faster than that of the Chinese army?!
There were defeated armies everywhere, like a mess, Biqiu Jian observed for a long time, and finally found where Wenqin's general flag was, led the men and horses to kill it, and took Wenqin out.
At this time, Wen Qin probably had less than a thousand people around him still listening to his command.
As soon as the two met, they knew that the situation of the two sides was actually similar.
Wen Qin wanted to be loyal to the country, and led the seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses of the rear army to try their best to block Zhang Fei's pursuers and create conditions for Guo Huai to withdraw his troops. But the problem is that Wen Qin has somewhat overestimated his prestige in the military.
After the Wuzhangyuan Resistance Battle, Wen Qin had the illusion that as long as he was willing to die generously with the soldiers, then the soldiers would never abandon him.
It's not wrong to feel this way, but only if you are the only commander of the force, and the non-commissioned officers have no one to rely on but to act on your orders.
But this is not the case today.
Guo Huai is the commander of the whole army, and it was Guo Huai who issued the military order for the whole army to advance and break through, and what is even worse is that in the eyes of these Wei soldiers, General Guo Huai has led the troops to open the breakthrough channel, and the soldiers behind only need to follow to escape.
In this case, who will stay with you Wenqin to die!!
Therefore, the blocking troops of the rear army did not even see the shadow of Zhang Fei's army, as soon as they heard that Guo Huai had led the army to withdraw first, they immediately panicked and fled for their lives.
In the end, Wen Qin and Biqiu Jian are not qualified enough, and their prestige in the army is insufficient, they are completely unable to control these Wei troops who are struggling to flee for their lives, even if the two of them desperately try to collect the chaotic soldiers, in the end they only collected less than 3,000 foot soldiers, plus the 2,000 cavalry that Biqiu Jian still has in his hands, a total of about 5,000 people.
With such a large army, it is impossible to turn the tide of the war on such a chaotic battlefield.
As a last resort, Wen Qin and Biqiu Jian had to join forces, and they also chose a direction to break through with all their might.
(End of chapter)