Jiang Wan chose to take the initiative, which was a certain risk.

But there is no way, Guo Huai urged the grain and grass to the rear, and there was too much information leaked.

Urging grain and grass shows that Guo Huai is still fighting at the front and has no intention of retreating.

So if you think about it from another angle, it shows that the counterattack of the Han Dynasty has not completely defeated Guo Huai's army so far, and the two sides are still in a stalemate.

This was completely beyond Jiang Wan's expectations.

According to Zhuge Liang's judgment of the situation when Jiang Wan left Chang'an, at this time, even if Guo Huai's army did not retreat, it should have encountered an all-out counterattack by the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty.

At this time, Lantian County, which was behind Guo Huai, should have received an order to respond, but the reality was that Guo Huai issued an order to transport grain.

This is extremely unfavorable to Jiang Wan.

If Guo Huai did not retreat, but blocked the counterattack of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, or even thought more seriously, Guo Huai repelled the counterattack of the Northern Army of the Great Han Dynasty, Jiang Wan, who was in Lantian County, fell into death.

Therefore, Jiang Wan had to take the risk of sending troops to attack from Guo Huai's rear flank to deal with the battle on the frontal battlefield.

To tell the truth, Jiang Wan's decision was a bit risky, because Jiang Wan didn't know the specific battle situation on the front line.

If the two sides are in a stalemate, then Jiang Wan's initiative will break the stalemate on the battlefield and add a lot of help to the main battlefield outside Huaili City.

But if Guo Huai has already repelled the counteroffensive of the Northern Army, then Jiang Wan's initiative to attack this time is suspected of being sent to death.

In fact, Jiang Wan understands all this, but he must take the initiative. Attacking is a risk, not attacking, waiting for success or failure ahead, is also an adventure.

It's good to say that if the big Han wins, if he loses, he Jiang Wan will be a dead end, and there will be no chance to return to Chang'an at all.

Therefore, Jiang Wan, who thought about it all night, finally decided to take the initiative.

And God, he really favors the big man, and he also favors Jiang Wan, so that Jiang Wan can appear in the most suitable place at the most appropriate time.

Guo Huai was already out of recruits, he had mobilized all the mobile troops he could mobilize, and he only had more than a hundred personal guards in his hands to call. These people are simply not enough to stop the 3,000 Han soldiers.

And the direction in which Jiang Wan appeared was even more fatal, he attacked from behind Guo Huai.

As a famous general, Guo Huai always pays attention to the collection of intelligence near the battlefield, in the north, south, and west, Guo Huai has sent a lot of scouts and scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Shu army. Only in the east, Guo Huai did not send any scouts.

Who would send scouts to their rear to reconnoiter the enemy!!

Of course, in addition to the unfavorable factors of reconnaissance, Guo Huai's decision-making mistakes in this battle also gave Jiang Wan the opportunity to rush to the rear and launch a surprise attack.

Who made Guo Huai have to choose the night battle.

The sky was getting darker and darker, even if Guo Huai sent scouts to the east, he couldn't reconnoiter too far, and under the cover of night, the three thousand soldiers led by Jiang Wan had even marched less than five miles behind Guo Huai, but Guo Huai still didn't know anything.

Again, if it is a normal situation, at this point in time, the Wei army should have collected its troops and returned to the camp, with the support of the camp, even if Jiang Wan really rushed behind Guo Huai, there would be no chance to launch a surprise attack on Guo Huai's army.

But Guo Huai had to choose a night battle, and with the blessing of these two favorable conditions, Jiang Wan directly touched the rear of Guo Huaizhong's military tent and launched an attack less than five miles away, completely catching Guo Huai off guard.

But Guo Huai is Guo Huai in the end, he was indeed caught off guard by Jiang Wan, and there is indeed no more generals at hand to call, and he has no backhand at all. In this case, Guo Huai still maintained a calm response.

Seeing that there were Shu thieves behind him, although Guo Huai broke out in a cold sweat on his back, he quickly made a decision - the Chinese army moved forward and joined the Wei army and Qin Lang who were fighting in the center of the battlefield as soon as possible.

Generally speaking, the commander of the Chinese army moves forward, which is a signal to strengthen the offensive. But here, Guo Huai just wanted to gather his troops as soon as possible, reduce the time for the troops to move closer to him and guard the Chinese army.

At the same time, Guo Huai did not forget to send troops to inform the 4,000 Wei troops who were on the north side to shrink back to defend, and if possible, try to block Jiang Wan's army attacking from the rear.

Although Guo Huai felt that this was unlikely, he did not directly leave the 4,000 county soldiers behind.

One thing to say, Guo Huai's order can be said to be very timely.

He ran fast enough by himself and soon completed the convergence with Qin Lang, and Qin Lang, who also found that the rear was unstable, had already begun to command the cavalry to retract the formation at this time, and no longer continued to launch a surprise attack on the Shu thief infantry position on the flank.

In this way, Guo Huai had the first batch of strength to guard the Chinese army.

And the four thousand county soldiers on the north side who were originally blocking Chen Yi from returning to defense were also unusually smooth, who let the soldiers commanded by Chen Yi at hand were all rabble, even if Chen Yi also discovered the changes in the battlefield, and wanted to command the rabble at hand to drag the Wei army back, but if he really wanted to implement it, he couldn't do it.

Therefore, the 3,000 county soldiers led by Jiang Wan were somewhat affected, and they had to slow down the pace of their advance to deal with the threat of the 4,000 county soldiers from the north.

And Jiang Wan's slowing down of the pace of pursuit gave Guo Huai a chance to breathe, and also gave Guo Huai a chance to rejudge the current situation.

One thing to say, Jiang Wan still lacks some battlefield experience in the end, if he is replaced by Wu Yi to command, there is a high probability that he will divide 1,000 troops to deal with the Wei army on the north side, and he will lead 2,000 soldiers to continue to pursue Guo Huai's Chinese army.

The enemy's command center is right in front of us, and it cannot be given any time to stop and think.

Continuing to maintain the speed of pursuit, even if Guo Huai cannot be captured alive, but forcing the commander of the enemy army to fail to issue effective military orders on the battlefield is a very important thing in itself.

It's a pity that Jiang Wan chose to slow down the pace of his march, so that Guo Huai had the opportunity to rethink the situation after joining Qin Lang.

And Guo Huai. There is nothing to think about, so far, Guo Huai has only one choice, that is, the whole army retreats.

There was no way, Jiang Wan's sudden appearance made Guo Huai have a very big misjudgment.

In fact, it is not a miscalculation, but it is a conventional inference from common sense, when the Shu army can appear in the rear, and the defenders in the rear have not passed on any information, which in itself shows that their back road may have been cut off by the Shu army.

Guo Huai didn't know that Jiang Wan only had 3,000 soldiers, in his opinion, Jiang Wan could lead thousands of Shu thieves to attack his rear wing, then Lantian County, which was further behind, must have been occupied by Shu thieves, and more Shu thieves could arrive at any time.

Although it is not clear where the Shu thieves came out of so many troops, the northern army of the Shu thieves in Qinzhou has already entered Guanzhong in advance, can Guo Huai gamble that there is still peace behind him? !

Guo Huai didn't dare to bet on this possibility, on the contrary, Guo Huai was even more convinced that the main force of the Wei army he led to attack the right Fufeng had fallen into the encirclement of the Shu thieves.

From this point of view, Guo Huai even came to a conclusion - no wonder that Wu Yi actually came to rescue Huaili County with only 8,000 people, it turned out that these Shu thieves and the Northern Army were simply bait for themselves to underestimate the enemy and drag themselves in Huaili County to continue fighting.

The real killing move is not the northern army in front of him at all, but these Shu thieves behind him.

In this case, you have to hold on in the encirclement and not retreat, that is the act of looking for death.

Guo Huai knows very well that the main force of the current Sili army has gone to Zuo Fengyi, and if he wants to wait for reinforcements to rescue, I am afraid he can only count on Sima Yi of Wancheng to raise troops to rescue. But this is too far, far water can't dissolve the near fire, and when Sima Yi came from Wancheng, his bones were cold.

Therefore, the only option is to withdraw from the army.

At this time, Guo Huai was extremely glad that he did not collect his troops and return to the camp, but chose to fight at night. This decision, at this time, actually had a miraculous effect.

Under the cover of night, if Guo Huai wants to choose to retreat, even if the Shu thieves want to pursue, they can't chase far, and it is easy to lose the pursuit target in the night.

When attacking, night is indeed unfavorable to the Wei army, but when retreating, night is the best protective color for the Wei army.

Therefore, Guo Huai immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered the remaining less than 6,000 foot soldiers who were entangled with the northern army of the Shu thieves in the front to retreat, and began to break away from contact with the Shu thieves, and at the same time took over the command of the cavalry in Qin Lang's hands, so that the remaining 3,500 cavalry began to launch another surprise attack on the infantry in the front.

The purpose of this time is not to break the enemy, but to help their own infantry get out of contact with the Shu thieves, and not give the Shu thieves a chance to follow and kill.

When the Wei army's foot soldiers gradually broke away from contact with the Shu thieves, moved closer to themselves, and slowly broke away from the battlefield, Guo Huai asked Qin Lang to lead less than 6,000 foot soldiers to take the first step and retreat from the path, striving to retreat to the right Fufeng fortress group as soon as possible, and act according to the actual situation.

This decision, in fact, is a kind of protection for Qin Lang by Guo Huai.

Guo Huai still has a good political IQ in the end, he knows the relationship between Qin Lang and the Son of Heaven, if it is a meritorious service, then Guo Huai doesn't mind giving a little credit to Qin Lang, but now that he is defeated, he must ensure that Qin Lang does not have any problems, so that he will really be held accountable afterwards, at least someone will help him Guo Huai say a few fair words.

Therefore, Guo Huai chose to let Qin Lang lead the infantry to retreat first, and he, Guo Huai, as the commander, led the cavalry to break off.

Of course, Guo Huai is not afraid of putting himself in danger, after all, the cavalry he leads, and the Shu thieves on the opposite side, except for the scout reconnaissance cavalry, there is no formed cavalry cavalry can still outrun the pursuit of the infantry?!

As for the 4,000 county soldiers on the north side, it was really not that Guo Huai wanted to abandon them, but that Guo Huai only relied on the more than 3,000 cavalry in his hand, and he could barely cover the retreat of the main force of 6,000 infantry, and he had no spare strength to rescue the 4,000 county soldiers.

On the battlefield, there must be trade-offs, especially when the army is defeated and withdrawn, Guo Huai cannot do everything.

So that's all it can be.

(End of chapter)