Chapter 625: Defeat
What Liu Bei's military command ability is, this is really a bit difficult to say.
After all, Liu Bei lost too much in the first half of his life, since he was twenty-four years old and started the army to recruit the Yellow Turban, he has rarely won a battle, and when he lost the worst, he even escaped by pretending to be dead on the battlefield.
Although, you can also help Liu Bei make up for it, after all, many of Liu Bei's defeats in the first half of his life were defeated in the case of inferior troops and fighting more with less. But Liu Bei basically spent the first half of his life on the run, being chased from the Central Plains to Hebei, and then from Hebei to Jingxiang, his command ability is really not convincing.
If Liu Bei has always had such a record, then to be honest, it is really not surprising that Pang Tong is planning to roll up his arms and prepare to go into battle in person, but Liu Bei is really not, Liu Bei also has a representative battle.
Take the four counties of Jingnan, you can say that the situation is forced, the four counties of Jingnan are looking at the wind and surrendering, and you can't see Liu Bei's actual command level, but in the battle of Sichuan, after Liu Zhang cut off the retreat and grain and grass supply, Liu Bei can also complete the Jedi counterattack and attack Chengdu, which is very valuable in itself.
Not to mention the subsequent battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei first beheaded Xiahou Yuan, and then used almost the same force to win the head-to-head duel with Cao Cao, forcing Cao Cao to finally give up Hanzhong.
This battle completely brought back the reputation that Liu Bei had lost in the first half of his life, and also confirmed the gold content of Cao Cao's sentence "The hero of the world, only the king and the ear".
Therefore, Liu Bei's military command ability actually depends on who he compares with.
Compared with goods like Liu Zhang, Liu Bei is simply beaten, compared with a military strategist like Cao Cao, Liu Bei may indeed be almost there, but if Liu Bei really occupies the initiative, Cao Cao has nothing to do with Liu Bei.
And now, Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin, although they have the qualifications of famous generals, but they still lack experience, which is definitely enough for Liu Zhang, but compared to Cao Cao, it is not a little worse.
What's more, the current battlefield situation, in the case of the Han army taking the initiative, even if Cao Cao came in person, there could be no good way.
Liu Bei was really not frightened by the current situation at all, and he didn't pay too much attention to the impact of the combined forces of Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin on the main formation.
The other side is only three or four thousand people, although there are more than a thousand cavalry, but his own Chinese army now has six or seven thousand people. As long as these people are blocked, when Zhang Fei and they completely break through the Wei army's defensive line, and then return to surround them, none of these assault soldiers will be able to escape.
And the Wei army's defense line was already a little crumbling and could be broken through at any time, and now Guo Huai chose to charge the battle in person, giving up the command of the defense line, which was already doomed to not be able to last too long.
Liu Bei has enough confidence and confidence to completely encircle and annihilate these Wei troops.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield changed, and it was indeed as Liu Bei expected, the Wei army gradually began to show signs of being unable to support it, and all the winning chips of the Wei army were only on the two assault teams that assaulted Liu Beijun's main formation.
Guo Huai didn't have anything to do about it, and even he himself couldn't break through Huang Quan's interception, so he could only pin his hopes on Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin.
Can. There was something on the battlefield that surprised both Liu Bei and Guo Huai.
When facing the flanks of Zhang Nan and Yan Zhi, the assault army commanded by Biqiu Jian did not send cavalry to assault at the first time, attacking the junction of the two armies, and using the speed advantage of the cavalry to fight for the possibility of success in the charge.
Before this army was surrounded by the Shu army's left and right flanks, it suddenly turned around, and no longer rushed towards Liu Bei's main formation, but rushed towards Huang Quan's flank and rear.
Is this going to flank Huang Quan with Guo Huaijun, and then the two armies will join forces together, and then kill the Chinese army? !
The idea is pretty good but. Isn't it a little too ignorant of Huang Quan and Liu Bei as a marionette?!
That's a good idea, but it's naïve. If you want to flank Huang Quan, Biqiu Jian's department must go around the edge of the battlefield in a big circle, which is enough time for Huang Quan to respond, and enough for Liu Bei to redeploy Zhang Nan and Yan Zhi's department to attack.
What's the benefit of doing that?!
Liu Bei was a little speechless, feeling that Cao Wei's junior was really unavailable, and he actually used such a general to kill the enemy. It's too child's play.
Don't say that Liu Bei laughed when he saw it, even Guo Huai was in a hurry to die If you two rush to the death, then we still have a glimmer of life, but come and pick yourself up, what's going on?!
Together, we are less than 10,000 people, and Liu Bei's Chinese army plus Huang Quan's troops add up to more than 10,000 people.
A one-to-one comparison of military strength, and now the morale of the soldiers on both sides is not at the same level, what are we going to do to fight with others? !
Guo Huai was also angry enough, feeling that the only chance to win was let go by Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin.
And Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin. Are these two really mentally demented?!
Not really.
These two also have their difficulties.
Don't forget, under what circumstances did the soldiers they lead appear in this place?!
To put it bluntly, these two are also defeated soldiers, and except for the more than 1,000 cavalry, there are no soldiers who belong to the battle sequence of the forbidden army, all of them are county soldiers.
A group of soldiers who suffered defeat and were panicked like lost dogs, and finally broke through the siege, their greatest hope is to quickly find their main army and seek refuge. How much more will and combat power do you expect them to have?!
After seeing that his own army was surrounded and beaten, he could still take the initiative to launch a breakthrough against Liu Bei's army, which was already regarded as a good use of troops by Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin, and they knew how to inspire morale.
Therefore, from the very beginning, these two did not intend to rely on this little soldier in their hands to attack Liu Bei's own formation. Rushing over is looking for death, as long as the battle is engaged, what kind of combat effectiveness does your own soldier have, and it will definitely be revealed in its original form.
From the very beginning, the plan of these two was to dangle a shot behind Liu Beijun's formation, attract Liu Beijun's dispatch, and after finding a suitable battlefield space, they would join Guo Huai as soon as possible and retreat under Guo Huai's unified command.
To put it bluntly, the army led by Biqiu Jian can only exert its last bit of combat effectiveness under such an arrangement of escaping for their lives.
The situation is such a situation, Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin have no choice, and even on the way to join Guo Huai, they are also worried, for fear that the Shu army will see through their own reality and send troops to intercept it, and it will be completely finished, this army, it will definitely be scattered in one fight.
But fortunately, it really let these two get over.
Because Liu Bei didn't know the reality of this Wei army, he really didn't dare to act rashly, but after transferring back Zhang Nan and Yan Zhi's troops, he did not issue further military orders.
As for Huang Quan, because the Wei army suddenly appeared on his flank, without knowing the specific information, for the sake of safety, Huang Quan also chose to temporarily break away from the entanglement with Guo Huai's army, and held on to prevent Guo Huai from taking the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive.
Therefore, Biqiu Jian was still quite smooth, and with his thousands of men, he completed the convergence with Guo Huai's department.
The two troops joined forces, and Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin finally saw Guo Huai Guo Huai was originally half angry, but now that they have seen the two of them, they have roughly understood the situation, but they can't take care of the hurry.
At the beginning, when he saw Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin leading the troops, Guo Huai thought that he had received the help of a new force, but now he listened to Biqiu Jian's meaning, where is this new force, it is simply a burden.
Well, the situation was already very choking, and now it has added thousands of burdens. What can I do about this?!
"Now the Shu thief doesn't know the truth of our waiting, so please retreat quickly and leave me behind this palace!"
Biqiu Jian clenched his fists and hurriedly said to Guo Huai.
What does Biqiu Jian mean, in fact, he wants to tell Guo Huai that now our two armies have just joined forces, and the Shu army does not know our reality and reality, and Huang Quan has temporarily retreated and defended it. Take your chances and run.
If I don't leave, when the Shu army finds out that the soldiers I brought have no combat effectiveness at all, it will be a burden, and we won't be able to run if we want to.
As for the aftermath. This Biqiu Jian is serious, after all, Guo Huai is much more important than them.
Biqiu Jian's plan is to let himself take over the army brought by Guo Huai, and retreat while fighting, so as to buy time for Guo Huai to organize the withdrawal of the army, which is indeed Biqiu Jian's sacrifice of his life.
On the battlefield, the situation is changing very quickly, and there is not enough time to do more entanglement, so he can't care about analyzing the pros and cons, Guo Huai must make a choice immediately.
Now that the Wei army's defense line is shrinking, there will be signs of collapse at any time, and it is impossible for his own breakthrough to achieve the goal of counterattacking Liu Beijun's own formation, which is no longer a question of whether he fights hard or not, but a question of defeat.
If you can save the defeat by fighting your old life, then Guo Huai is really not afraid of losing his life to be a general, who has not had such an awareness when he goes into battle.
But when the defeat was decided, he was dying and struggling, and he had to drag the soldiers to death together, which was not Guo Huai's style of using soldiers.
Therefore, after hearing Biqiu Jian's suggestion, Guo Huai made a decision after thinking about it for a few breaths in silence.
"Removal !!"
(End of chapter)