Guo Huai led his troops to break through the fortress defense group of Youfufeng, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This pile of defense groups that stretches for dozens of miles, over the years, is enough to toss themselves.

Not only are the fortresses interconnected, supporting each other, and fighting one by one, which is quite difficult, but the fortress itself is also extremely strong, all of which are poured with the "artifact" cement on the side of the Shu thieves, and they don't want to break through by smashing the fortress at all.

Cement is a good thing, over the years, Dawei has used I don't know how much grain, I don't know how much fine work I have lost, so I have hoarded a little cement, all of which is used in the construction of the walls of Wuguan, Tongguan and Hangu Pass.

As a general of Wuguan, Guo Huai knows too well how strong this thing is, and it is a good thing that can't be smashed with a thunderbolt.

It is precisely because of this that Guo Huai's most headache for the strategy of the right Fufeng is these fortress groups, Guo Huai also thought about it for a long time before he came up with a way to use the speed advantage of the cavalry to cut off the connection between the fortress groups, and then break them individually.

Now, the biggest difficulty in the strategy of the right Fufeng is to finally let himself overcome, and the next step is to use the speed advantage of the cavalry to quickly chase and defeat the retreating Shu army.

As long as the last Shu army is encircled and annihilated, then the next battle will become much easier.

However, things were somewhat unexpected.

Niu Jin was unwilling to cooperate with Guo Huai and continued to attack the right side of the wind.

The reason is simple, this is not the purpose of the cavalry corps commanded by Niu Jin.

According to the strategic arrangement, after Guo Huai broke through the right Fufeng fortress group, the cavalry corps led by Niu Jin should turn north in time, attack the intersection of right Fufeng and Zuo Feng Yi all the way, and quickly march to Zuo Feng Yi to attack the main force of the Shu thief Yongzhou army where to confront General Cao Zhen.

After completely eliminating the main force of the Yongzhou army, he cooperated with the main force of the Wei army led by General Cao Zhen to besiege Chang'an.

This is Niu Jin's combat mission.

Moreover, in Niu Jin's opinion, the current Right Fufeng Legion has been disabled, and the remaining thousands of soldiers, with more than 10,000 Wuguan defenders in Guo Huai's headquarters, are enough to deal with, and there is no need for cavalry to continue to fight together.

If Niu Jin follows Guo Huai to continue to fight, Guo Huai really wants to lead his troops to go deep into the right Fufeng, to attack Meixian, or even disperse the pass, then Niu Jin's cavalry corps may not be able to make a detour to Zuo Feng Yi to support General Cao Zhen in a short time.

Once General Cao Zhen's side loses the battle, even if Guo Huai really takes down the entire Right Fufeng, what's the point?!

One thing to say, if the Han only had the Yongzhou Legion, then Guo Huai would also agree with Niu Jin's judgment, but the problem is that according to the information Guo Huai obtained, the elite northern army of the Shu thieves has entered the right Fufeng and may support Chang'an at any time.

Guo Huai doesn't know where the northern army, which has tens of thousands of people, has arrived, whether it is in the right to support the wind, or the left Feng Yi, or directly into Chang'an.

If there is no cavalry, they will rely on their own 15,000 men to pursue the remnants of the right-wing wind army that may be supported at any time!!

Therefore, Guo Huai insisted that Niu Jin follow him to pursue the remnants of the right Fufeng army, at least until he conquered Huaili County and threatened the flank of Chang'an, and then Niu Jin withdrew.

At that time, Guo Huai, who had the city in hand, was confident that he could deal with the threat of Chang'an and the Northern Han Army with the defense of the city, but before that, Guo Huai did not dare to wave.

Guo Huai's judgment can be said to be very comprehensive.

However, it is still that problem - there is no clear subordinate relationship between Niu Jin and Guo Huai.

In terms of official position, it is indeed Guo Huai who is higher, but Niu Jin is in charge of the cavalry corps directly belonging to the Son of Heaven Cao Rong, and his combat order is only to cooperate with Guo Huai to march, not to obey Guo Huai's command, so Niu Jin also has enough confidence to refuse.

The two of them had some disputes for a while, which also caused the Wei army to be a little sluggish in the speed of marching.

In a short time, that is, in one day, the two reached an agreement under the mediation of Qin Lang - Niu Jin left 5,000 cavalry under the command of Qin Lang, cooperated with Guo Huai to pursue the defeated army of the Shu thieves, and led the remaining 15,000 cavalry to support General Cao Zhen and attack the flank of the Yongzhou army of the Shu thieves.

But it was the time difference on this day that gave Liu Yin a chance to breathe, and he withdrew to Huaili County with the defeated troops all the way.

Even Jufu, because of the time difference of this day, had to go to Xiduo for a while, stop in Juxian County to rest and recuperate, and block the pursuers.

In this way, in Guo Huai's displeasure, Niu Jin led the cavalry corps north to support Cao Zhen, while Guo Huai and Qin Lang continued to march west, pursuing the defeated troops of the Shu thieves, and attacking Huaili by the way.

And at this time, Zuo Fengyi. Zhang Xi is leading the troops to retreat.

After finally figuring out the entire battlefield situation and knowing what the Wei thief was fighting in mind, Zhang Xi immediately wrote down his judgment and asked the army to send it to Zhuge Liang, who was in charge of Chang'an, and then immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and withdraw to Chongquan County first.

This retreat, Wei Yan didn't have half of the objections and figured it out together, and he also understood what kind of situation his army would encounter if he continued to stay outside Dali County, and Wei Yan was not the kind of character who opposed for the sake of opposition, so he naturally had no opinion on the retreat.

But Cao really has an opinion.

Wang Situ is so old, he lost the tongue argument with his cheeks, and he deliberately showed weakness and lost the battle, and the Shu thief should be the moment when the morale of the army was shocked. You quit?!

Hair down, hurry up and fight, come and attack!!

Dali County is not a strong county seat, your military morale is so high, and you are fighting a battle to defend the territory, maybe I will be defeated and retreat after a few days!!

In such an advantageous situation, you didn't even fight and retreated directly?!

Do you want to nod your face?!

The most important thing is that when you retreat, how can I pin you here, wait for the right side of Fufeng to break through, and let the cavalry attack your flank?!

Cao Zhen was really angry, he had never seen such a shameless thing.

But the current situation is like this, the Shu thieves on the opposite side don't even want their faces, not only do they not attack, but they choose to retreat, and they are afraid that Cao Zhen will lead the troops to pursue, they actually retreated overnight, and they didn't even clean up the camp.

Therefore, when Cao Zhen climbed the city tower early in the morning and looked at the Zhangxi military camp, he found that the Shu thieves had withdrawn.

In this case, the Shu thief is afraid that he has already gone out for twenty or thirty miles, and even if he pursues, he may not be able to catch up.

Cao Zhen was depressed, and hurriedly found Wang Lang, Wang Chang, and Dai Ling to discuss what to do next.

I have to think of a way to continue to drag down the Shu thief.

But this is already the case, Wang Lang's suggestion is - he retreats, let's follow.

On the one hand, if you don't keep up, you can't do it, we're here to recover Guanzhong, how can you let him retreat if the enemy retreats, and you won't even chase after him?!

On the other hand, only by catching up, can there be the possibility of sticking to the Shu thief, no matter what, the Shu thief cannot abandon the entire Zuo Fengyi, and he has been returning to Chang'an like this, he will definitely stay and continue to stick to Zuo Fengyi.

Don't give the enemy too much time to recuperate.

And Wang Chang. Wang Chang hesitated, but still took the initiative to stand up and remind Cao Zhen - the Shu thieves withdrew so simply, could it be that Zhang Xi had already seen through the strategy, and now retreated in order to shorten the logistics supply line and not give the cavalry corps on the flank a chance to cut off the back road? !

Wang Lang's words, Cao Zhen was at most thinking about whether it made sense, but Wang Chang's words suddenly made Cao Zhen excited.

This possibility is not impossible. Even in other words, in Cao Zhen's cognition, Zhang Xi suddenly withdrew so simply, then he must have seen something.

Chasing, must chase, we can't let the Shu thieves shorten their logistics supply lines so easily, especially not let the Shu thieves directly retract back to Gaoling County.

Once Zhang Xi shrinks his forces and retreats to Gaoling, it will be too close to Chang'an, and there is no possibility of cutting off his logistical supplies.

If he could, Cao Zhen must find a way to drag Zhang Xi and drag him in Chongquan County, so as to create enough time for the cavalry corps to cut off Zhang Xi's return route.

Therefore, Cao Zhen immediately ordered the whole army to march and approach Chongquan.

And after arriving in Chongquan, Cao Zhen didn't want to use the previous slimy tactics anymore, he sent Han De as the vanguard, let him arrive outside Chongquan County in advance, and then don't make too many adjustments, and immediately launch an attack.

Even if there is only a hook ladder and a pile of human lives, you must immediately launch an attack on the city, and you can't let the Shu thieves leave the city so easily.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhenyou asked Wang Chang to lead the only 5,000 cavalry, with the speed advantage of the cavalry, detoured directly behind Chongquan County, and if the Shu thieves withdrew from Chongquan County, they immediately delayed the advance speed of the Shu thieves at any cost, contained and harassed the Shu thieves, and waited for themselves to lead the main force to support.

The most important thing is to be sure to delay the time until the cavalry corps coming from the right side of the wind arrives on the battlefield.

Only in this way can the entire strategy be perfectly achieved, laying a good foundation for the next siege of Chang'an.

By the way, Cao Zhen also began to complain. What the hell is going on with Guo Boji, did he break through the right Fufeng, and then let the main cavalry force come to help!!!

(End of chapter)