Right Fufeng, in the Han military camp.

Liu Yin is not having a good time now, facing Guo Huai's attack, he has a sad face every day, thinking hard about defensive countermeasures.

Sometimes, Liu Yin also has a kind of emotion.

Six years ago, he entered Hanzhong alone, and after some setbacks, he was appreciated by General Chen Zhi and served as the chief bookkeeper in the army.

Six years later, he has become a county guard, in charge of his own affairs, and now he is commanding more than 10,000 soldiers to block the attack of Cao Wei's famous general Guo Huai.

The difference between before and after lies only in two people.

One is General Chen Zhi, who discovered and promoted himself, and the other is General Zhang Xi, who entrusted him with important tasks.

Liu Yin has always been deeply grateful to these two people.

People, ability is never the way out, someone is willing to let you show your ability, that is the biggest way out.

Liu Yin is really grateful to Chen Zhi and Zhang Xi. Especially Zhang Xi, who seems to have recognized himself, in five years, he was promoted from a general in the army to a county guard, which can be said to be his benefactor of Liu Yin.

Therefore, Liu Yin did not dare to slack off at all during the period of governing and guarding the right wind.

Now even in the face of the world-famous Cao Wei general Guo Huai, Liu Yin is still working hard to fight and think hard about how to retreat from the enemy.

But, to tell the truth, it's not easy.

Today's right Fufeng, most of them are newly recruited county soldiers, although there is no shortage of all kinds of ordnance and equipment, but the training is insufficient, and many people are not even satisfied with a year's training time.

You can fight, but your combat power and battlefield experience can't really be compared with a group of veterans.

But fortunately, there are about 5,000 soldiers left in Youfufeng, most of whom are veterans who followed the first emperor into Guanzhong, and they are the elite who came to Guanzhong to take turns to garrison, and some of them are the northern army that has not withdrawn.

Although the number is not large, Liu Yin according to the method he thought of, with these veterans as the core framework, mixed the veterans and recruits, and accelerated the growth of these recruits as soon as possible in the way of veterans leading recruits, supplemented by the experience of veterans, plus the fortress fortifications that have been built for five years, at present, it is not a big problem to block Guo Huai's attack.

But Liu Yin always had an intuition, a sense of insecurity, and always felt that Guo Huai's current offensive posture had not been fully revealed.

Liu Yin has no direct evidence, but Liu Yin also has circumstantial evidence.

Although the Wei army under the command of Guo Huai attacked continuously, it always surrounded the dozen or so fortress areas in the direction of the exit of Wuguan Road, and the defensive fortresses in the rear, Guo Huai did not try to penetrate and divide.

This is a place that Liu Yin has never been able to understand.

On the surface, this is an operational manifestation of Guo Huai's insufficient troops and inability to penetrate in depth, and according to intelligence, the number of Wei troops led by Guo Huai is about 10,000 to 15,000, which also confirms that the Wei army is indeed insufficient.

But Liu Yin has been in power for more than three years, and he has been fighting back and forth with Guo Huai for more than three years, and he has not lost his understanding of Guo Huai.

In the past, Guo Huai would occasionally send a small force to infiltrate the daily petty fights, why did he go to the big corps to fight, Guo Huai seemed a little conservative? !

Therefore, Liu Yin always felt that Guo Huai was hiding something, and the current lack of depth in the attack he was showing was just confusing his appearance.

For this reason, Liu Yin always held a mobile force of 3,000 people, staying in his hands to deal with possible changes, and did not dare to fully devote himself to the defense of Youfufeng.

In the battle ahead, in addition to relying on the soldiers in the fortress group to hold on to the battle, Liu Yin only asked Jufu and Zhuge Qian to lead two troops of 3,000 people each back and forth according to his previous experience, so as to prevent the Wei army from breaking through the fortress defense line and penetrating deep into the right to support the wind.

But this kind of arrangement always made Liu Yin feel that he didn't seem to have something in place, and at the same time, the uneasiness in his heart was getting bigger and bigger.

Until half a month after the confrontation with Guo Huai's army, one day, Cao Wei's cavalry with a scale of at least 10,000 people rushed out from Wuguan Road.

After these Cao Wei cavalry rushed out of Wuguan Road, they rushed straight to the fortress fortifications.

However, these cavalry did not launch an attack on the fortifications, but took advantage of the speed of the cavalry and quickly began to intersperse, bypassing the front of the fortress and cutting off the interconnection between the fortresses from behind or from the flanks.

Once the defenders in the fort tried to come out in the field, the cavalry's shock advantage was on the plains of the right wind, and they could exert a combat effectiveness far superior to that of the infantry.

And if the defenders in the fortress can't hold out, the Cao Wei infantry who are closely behind the cavalry will concentrate their superior forces and launch an offensive against the fortress that has been interspersed and cut without any support.

In less than three days, more than 40 fortress groups were breached, and only a few slightly larger fortress groups remained, which were still struggling to support in the end, but they could not last long.

What's even worse is that after learning that the front-line fortress was attacked, Jufu and Zhuge Qian, who were the receiving troops, immediately led the troops to respond, trying to open up the interconnection between the fortresses and re-establish the defense system.

However, both of them were attacked by the Wei cavalry halfway to varying degrees.

Cao Wei's cavalry, not 10,000 people, but a full 20,000 people, is another miscalculation of poor information.

Even if both of them were prepared, but fighting in the plains, the advantage of the cavalry was too great, and the two of them could only gather their soldiers and start retreating almost after taking a face, trying to preserve their combat strength.

But in addition to the impact power, speed is the cavalry's greatest advantage, and it is impossible for him to run more than four legs.

In the end, it was Liu Yin who used the reserves he had been holding in his hands, and he barely managed to pick up the two remnants of the army from the pursuit of the cavalry.

However, the same losses were heavy.

After collecting the troops and counting the number of people, Liu Yin sadly found that the original 15,000 people of the right Fufeng defenders could now be gathered under his command, and there were only 6,000 people left.

It was, so to speak, a decisive defeat.

And Liu Yin also knows that now the main force of the Yongzhou County soldiers is in Zuo Fengyi, and there are only less than 5,000 soldiers guarding Chang'an, and it is impossible to divide troops to rescue Youfufeng with that little force.

Therefore, Liu Yin must make a choice, whether to continue to hold on to the right Fufeng, or directly give up the right Fufeng and retreat to Chang'an.

Zhuge Qian and Jufu both suggested that Liu Yin should not waste the last bit of troops on the right Fufeng.

Now Chang'an is empty and the troops are insufficient, and the Wei army has obviously broken through the defense line of the fortress group of Youfufeng and entered the interior of Youfufeng.

Not to mention that we don't have enough troops now, even if we have equal troops, on the plains, if we want to fight the cavalry with the same number of infantry, the chances of winning are also not great.

It is better to temporarily give up the right wind and surrender Chang'an.

As long as Chang'an is not lost, when the Northern Army and the Liangzhou Army enter Yongzhou, they can still deal with the Wei Army.

But if the last bit of troops is buried here, the Wei army will directly besiege Chang'an after occupying the right Fufeng. With the 5,000 defenders in Chang'an City, it may be difficult to stop the siege of Cao Wei's 40,000 troops.

Theoretically speaking, the advice of Jufu and Zhuge Qian is pertinent.

But in Liu Yin's opinion, it is a little conservative.

Chang'an City does only have 5,000 defenders, but if you really want to explode troops to defend the city, judging from the governance of the Han Dynasty over the years, it is not impossible to recruit 10,000 people, or recruit private soldiers from the family to defend the city.

Don't forget, in Chang'an City, in addition to the soldiers, there is actually a hidden semi-military force - caravans of various families smuggling grain.

A caravan that can run to negotiate smuggling with enemy forces is not an ordinary caravan, and it can't do this job at all without the ability to lick blood from the knife's edge.

And with the prestige that Jiang Wan and Chen Yi have accumulated over the years of governing Guanzhong, it is possible for the personal ability of the two to persuade those Chang'an families to help the Han defend the city.

After all, if Cao Wei reoccupied Guanzhong Sanfu, then these families would have no need to smuggle grain, which would be tantamount to cutting off their financial routes.

If you let these families really turn their faces against Cao Wei and fight hard, they may not be able to do it, but let them contribute a caravan to defend the city, this kind of thing can be cleared up afterwards, and it will not implicate these families at all.

Therefore, Liu Yin believes that Chang'an is not necessarily unable to defend it due to lack of troops.

And if you withdraw, then the right wind area will be completely lost, and with the loss of the right wind, the communication channel between Guanzhong and Hanzhong will be completely cut off, and that is the most troublesome thing.

Therefore, the right wind still has to be guarded.

But the problem is that the suppression advantage of Cao Wei's cavalry is too great, and if you use infantry to fight in the field, it will inevitably be another defeat to meet yourself. Field battles cannot be fought, and city battles must be fought.

In the defense of the city, the role of cavalry is not great, unless he Cao Wei is willing to let the cavalry dismount and fight, otherwise, the only troops that can really carry out siege operations are the more than 10,000 Cao Wei infantry who besieged the fortress group at the beginning.

With 6,000 to more than 10,000 infantry fighting to defend the city, Liu Yin felt that he was still sure.

The only problem was that we needed to find a city with a strong fortress and sufficient equipment to defend the city, and at the same time, we had to rest and restore the morale of the Han army, which had just experienced a great defeat, as soon as possible.

With the morale of the army that is now panicking in the people, even if they fight a battle to defend the city and have the advantage of the city wall, they will not be able to stop the first wave of Cao Wei's infantry attack.

Therefore, the decision must be made quickly, otherwise with the pursuit speed of Cao Wei's cavalry, there is not much time left for Liu Yin to react.

Liu Yin is the same Liu Yin in the end, he has served as the Taishou of the Right Fufeng County for more than three years, and he can be said to know the situation of the Right Fufeng well, and he quickly found a suitable place to retreat.

Right Fufeng County, Huaili County.

Huaili County in the last Northern Expedition of the battle, the city wall by Cao Zhen and Guo Huai specially reinforced, after the Han regained Huaili, the city gate and the city wall were repaired, the defense is quite strong.

As a county governor, there are also special warehouses in Huaili County for hoarding materials and military rations for defending the city, and it is not a problem to hold on in a short period of time.

Finally, Huaili County was located on the flank of Chang'an City, and the distance between it and Chang'an City was not far, and unless the Wei army chose to besiege Chang'an, it would not be able to completely sever the connection between Huaili and Chang'an.

Where is a good place to stick to.

But the only problem was how to lead the remaining 6,000 defeated soldiers before the cavalry units of the Wei army and retreat to Huaili first.

Liu Yin thought about it and felt that someone had to take the initiative to stay behind and break the queen, but this was a mission to death, and Liu Yin really didn't know who would be willing to do this.

However, Jufu stood up!

There was no time to sigh, and there was no time to talk nonsense, Liu Yin gave Jufu a thousand soldiers, which was specially used to break the queen, and he and Zhuge Qianshuai led the remaining 5,000 people, quickly retreated, and retreated to Huaili County.

As for whether you can see Jufu again. In this matter, I don't have any hope for myself!

Somebody has to do something that needs to be done.

(End of chapter)