Guo Huai, who finally rushed to the periphery of the Youfufeng fortress group, was limited in the information he could get.

In the end, it was a defeated army, and he couldn't send scouts and scouts as usual, and he couldn't contact the fine work arranged in Youfufeng in the early days in a short time, so Guo Huai could only know the information in front of him through the scout's exploration, but he couldn't know the news that the main force of the Northern Army would arrive at the battlefield in one day.

In order to avoid startling the snake, Guo Huaijun's scouts and scouts couldn't be sent out so far, and it was not easy to know the situation in front of him.

Of course, Guo Huai was not defenseless against the main force of the Northern Army, after all, when he was in Huaili City, Guo Huai learned about the scale of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty through reconnaissance cavalry.

But Guo Huai really didn't think that the 30,000 northern army would chase after him, from Huaili to the fortress group.

After all, the total strength of his infantry and cavalry is less than 20,000 people, and he lost 3,000 people when he attacked Huaili, and then experienced a big defeat, leaving about 7,000 people under the city of Huaili, and he will definitely lose some troops if he retreats overnight, and there must not be many remnants left, and the morale is not high. These Shu thief masters must also be able to predict it.

On Zuo Fengyi's side, the main force of nearly 30,000 Yongzhou soldiers led by Shu thief Zhang Xi was completely besieged by General Cao Zhen for almost half a month.

Guo Huai thought about it for a while, and felt that if he was Zhuge Liang who was in charge of the entire campaign in Chang'an City, he would definitely not use all the main forces of the 30,000 Northern Army to encircle and suppress a group of defeated soldiers, and would definitely transfer most of his troops north to relieve the siege of Zuo Feng Yi.

Therefore, in Guo Huai's view, the strength of the Shu thieves who can come to pursue and encircle the remnants of the soldiers led by him is at most about 20,000 people, which still includes those Shu soldiers who later joined the battlefield.

If you count the defensive forces that need to be left behind to recover the county along the way, the strength of the real fortress group is about 15,000 at most.

And the troops arranged by the Shu thieves in front of the right Fufeng fortress group, although there are only 8,000 people, half of the troops are encircled, and half of the troops are used as reserves, ready to intercept their defeated troops, which is also normal in Guo Huai's opinion, and it is not unexpected.

Therefore, Guo Huai really didn't think that Wu Yi would have a main army of more than 20,000 people, which would arrive in a day.

Really, if Guo Huai learned that such an army was coming, then the decision he made now might be to break through the Shu thief defense line as soon as possible and lead the troops to retreat to Wuguan, but unfortunately, Guo Huai's decision now is to break through the siege of the Shu thief defense line as soon as possible, enter the fortress group and command the soldiers to defend it.

Relying on the defensive advantages of the fortress group, coupled with the cavalry response, in Guo Huai's view, it is not without hope to hold the last springboard of the right wind.

But no matter what, the defense line arranged by the Shu thieves on the outside of the fortress group in front of them must be broken through.

And to break through this line of defense, in Guo Huai's view, it is not impossible.

The strength of the Shu thieves besieging the fortress group is only about 8,000 people, and in order to better encircle the entire fortress group, the Shu generals have to disperse the troops, which leads to the entire encirclement defense line is very long, but the depth is not enough.

And in Guo Huai's hands, there is still a cavalry team of 2,000 people available.

There is no need for a troublesome tactic, just take the cavalry as the vanguard, choose the weak point of the defense line to break through, and then before the reserve of the Shu thieves finds themselves and rushes to encircle and annihilate, take the infantry to quickly pass through the gap and retreat into the fortress group, and their strategic goal is achieved.

And this is not difficult for Guo Huai's command ability.

Therefore, Guo Huai did not hesitate, and after a simple reorganization of his subordinates, he personally commanded the cavalry assault, and Qin Lang led the infantry to follow and began this operation.

And Wu Yi. Wu Yi was really careless.

On the one hand, Wu Yi believed that his main army was about to arrive, so his vigilance against the Wei army was somewhat relaxed.

On the other hand, the scouts sent by Wu Yi around really didn't find out about Guo Huai's arrival at the first time, so that Guo Huai was discovered by the scouts when he touched the flank of the defensive line, and when Wu Yi received the scout's report, it was already too late to deal with it at that time.

Therefore, although Wu Yi had already tried his best to respond, he still let Guo Huai cut a passage in the defensive line and retreated into Youfufeng with two thousand soldiers.

And Wu Yi's only result was to gnaw down the 300 cavalry that Guo Huai used to break off, but he also had nearly 500 casualties.

As a result, Wu Yi was furious, and he almost directly ordered an attack on the fortress group. Fortunately, Jiang Wan was still very calm and dissuaded Wu Yi in time.

It's just a small setback, and if you use anger to raise the army, you really have committed a big taboo.

Besides, even if Guo Huai is allowed to retreat into the Youfufeng fortress group, everyone has seen the battlefield situation today, how many people did Guo Huai bring back? !

It doesn't add up to more than 5,000 people.

Even if they were to retreat into the fortress complex and hold on, so what. As early as tonight, and early tomorrow morning at the latest, the main forces of the Northern Army will arrive.

At that time, it was 35,000 Han troops against 7,000 Wei troops, and these 7,000 Wei troops were all Wei troops who had just experienced a rout and were discouraged.

If you want to fight, you can wait until the main force is ready to fight.

If you take the initiative to attack now, in case the attack is unfavorable, let the Wei army hold the fortress group, wouldn't this give Guo Huai a chance to boost the morale of the army in vain!

Therefore, there is no need to rush at all, and it is not a problem to wait until tomorrow to attack.

As for Guo Huai, it doesn't matter if he is proud for a while.

In fact, as Jiang Wan said, Guo Huai was indeed greatly relieved after breaking through the direction of the Han army and entering the fortress group.

After entering the fortress group, the biggest advantage is that you don't have to worry about being completely cut off by the Shu thieves. Finally withdrew.

But at the same time, Guo Huai did not immediately relax after entering the fortress group, on the contrary, he immediately ordered the whole army to enter the fortress group to deploy defense, and he commanded the cavalry to respond.

This is in response to the possible attack of the Shu thieves in the future.

Guo Huai's battle formation experience is very rich, and he will not think that it is safe to withdraw to the fortress group, and he is ready for the Han army to attack immediately.

However, Guo Huai was on guard from breaking into the fortress group until nightfall, only to find that the Shu thieves did not attack at all.

This made Guo Huai's heart, which he had originally put down, hang up again.

He retreated to the right Fufeng fortress group, even if he led the remnants of the army who had just experienced defeat, but for the fortress group, the defensive strength was always increased, and he still had 1,700 cavalry in his hands, with cavalry to assist in the defense, it was completely possible to improve the defense of the fortress group by more than one grade.

If the Shu thieves want to capture the fortress group, the best way is to take advantage of the fact that they have just retreated into the fortress group, the foothold is not stable, and the command system is not smooth, and then launch an attack quickly, otherwise it will not be so easy to wait until they have fully mastered the defenders of the fortress group, and then want to carry out a frontal attack.

But the Shu thieves did not take advantage of the situation to attack, but continued to stand still.

In this case, either the master of the Shu thieves is a fool who does not understand military affairs, or the Shu thieves have nothing to rely on.

No matter what Guo Huai thinks, he will not think that the Shu thief master will be a fool, after all, the two sides have already fought once, although he lost in the end, but that defeat cannot be regarded as his own command is not as good as the other party to tell the truth, how did Huaili City lose, Guo Huai is still a little confused now, and he didn't have time to seriously reflect on it.

But no matter what, Guo Huai doesn't think that the Shu thief master will be a military idiot, so the only explanation is that the Shu thief has nothing to rely on.

And this dependence, Guo Huai quickly saw it.

Early the next morning, Guo Huai was depressed to find that the number of Shu thieves outside the fortress group had suddenly increased, from the original 8,000 to tens of thousands. This joke is bigger.

These Shu thieves sent all the reinforcements here, don't they really care about the victory or defeat on Zuo Fengyi's side?!

Or is it Zuo Fengyi's side, and the Shu thief has already arranged a backhand?!

Well, Guo Huai doesn't have time to think about these things now, if he had known that the reinforcements of the Shu thieves would come so quickly and there were so many troops, then Guo Huai would definitely not continue to choose to stay in the fortress group, but after entering the fortress group on the same day, he would directly withdraw his troops and retreat to Wuguan.

Now it's okay, if you want to retreat, you can't retreat, and you will inevitably be chased and killed by Shu thieves.

Even if he can barely escape back to Wuguan in the end, I am afraid that he will be followed by the Shu thieves, resulting in the loss of Wuguan.

Now Guo Huai has only one way, which is to top the fortress group and quickly ask for help from Sima Yi in Wancheng.

Except for Sima Yi, no one has the opportunity to pick him up.

Even if Guo Huai wants to wait for Sima Yi's reinforcements, he must hold on to the fortress group for at least half a month, otherwise, Sima Yi will not have enough time to dispatch troops to meet him.

Although Guo Huai didn't know what the specific battle situation of Wancheng was, he still knew that the Jingzhou army of the Shu thieves had now gone north to attack Wancheng.

Although judging from the previous intelligence, Sima Yi's defense is still very easy, but it may not be so easy to let Sima Yi block the Jingzhou army of the Shu thieves on the one hand, and then transfer troops to meet him on the other.

Now things are really troublesome.

(End of chapter)