Puyang was abandoned, Jiang Wei entered the city to put out the fire, and for a while he couldn't pursue Guo Huai's subordinates, so he could only send an envoy to report the situation to Wei Yan, who had evacuated with the vanguard a day earlier, and remind Wei Yan to pay attention.

Wei Yan wanted to intercept it, but the problem was that Wei Yan withdrew with the vanguard troops, and there were no more than 5,000 soldiers who could gather to prepare for battle in a hurry.

The troops were not enough, and they rushed to the battle, and if they were broken by Guo Huai, they would hurt their morale.

And with Guo Huai's ability, he will definitely prepare for encountering Wei Yan's interception, and he will definitely choose to avoid Wei Yan's direction and march, and it is not so easy to catch Guo Huai.

Therefore, Wei Yan thought about it for a while and decided not to make extraneous branches, maintain the current rhythm as much as possible, and go to the sour date.

Judging from the current marching speed, even if Guo Huai is more familiar with the geography of Dongjun and can rush to Sujujube one step earlier than Wei Yan, Wei Yan has already figured out how to deal with this old guy.

To be honest, compared to Guo Huai rushing to the sour jujube one step ahead, Wei Yan was more worried that Guo Huai directly abandoned the sour jujube and led the troops to strengthen the defense of Yanjin.

If that's the case, that's what Wei Yan has to worry about.

At this time, Guo Huai was indeed thinking about whether to go to sour dates or Yanjin.

If the troops are sufficient, then there is no difference between Guo Huai going to sour dates and going to Yanjin.

But now Guo Huai only has 8,000 soldiers in his hands, and in this case, he will divide his troops to support the two places, which is purely to send Wei Yan's heads and military exploits. He had to make a choice.

The sour jujube defenders are less than a thousand people, and if they don't go, in the face of Wei Yan's attack, the sour jujube will inevitably be lost.

On the Yanjin side, there are 5,000 people stationed with Jiang Ji, and if he goes over and joins Jiang Ji, he can basically ensure the safety of Yanjin, but if the sour jujube is occupied by Shu thieves, it is equivalent to driving a nail between Yanjin and Chenliu.

And this nail is very long, it can almost span most of the eastern county, from Dong'e to the sour jujube line, the Shu thief can advance and retreat freely.

Guo Huai suddenly found that he didn't seem to have a choice.

Jiang Ji's side in Yanjin can still hold out for a while, and judging from the intelligence, the forbidden army sent by the Son of Heaven has already set off under the leadership of Cao Yu, and it will take about ten to fifteen days to complete the crossing of the river and arrive in Yanjin.

But the sour jujube here, if Guo Huai doesn't go, it will be a sure thing.

There was no way, Guo Huai could only raise troops and go in the direction of sour jujubes.

I don't know if Guo Huai is really lucky, or if the guide in Guo Huai's army is powerful. Along the way, Guo Huai tried his best to avoid Wei Yan's army's trail march, and sometimes had to take a detour, but even so, Guo Huai still got ahead of Wei Yan and entered the sour date.

Guo Huai immediately began to sort out the city defense of sour jujube on the spot, and made plans to stick to sour jujube.

As for Wei Yan, who arrived at the sour jujube only one day later than Guo Huai, seeing the flag of Guo Huai floating in the sour jujube city, Wei Yan sneered, and did not order an immediate attack on the city, but ordered the whole army to go to the north of the sour jujube and set up camp.

In the next five days, Wei Yan still did not carry out any attack, and let Guo Huai seize the time to arrange the city defense, that is, he did not move.

In this situation, Guo Huai is a little numb when he sees it.

No, what the hell is this Wei Yan thinking?!

Sujube is not a big city like Puyang, and the height of the city wall and the defensive facilities are not so complete.

In addition, Guo Huai only arrived at the sour jujube one day earlier than Wei Yan, there were many loopholes in the defense of the sour jujube at that time, with Wei Yan's ability, he could attack the sour jujube by force, and it must be Guo Huai himself who fell into passivity.

But Wei Yan not only did not launch a strong attack on the first day, but even did not launch an attack for the next four or five days.

Not only did he not launch an attack, Wei Yan didn't even send soldiers to cut down trees and build siege equipment, Guo Huai really couldn't understand what Wei Yan was waiting for.

Although he couldn't understand it, the reality was in front of him, no matter what reason Wei Yan didn't launch the siege, now for Guo Huai, he had no choice, and it was always a good thing to have one more day to strengthen the city defense.

In this way, Wei Yan still stood still, and Guo Huai seized every day to desperately strengthen the city defense of Sujujube, preparing to fight a city defense with Wei Yan.

And all this lasted until Jiang Wei led the troops and arrived at the sour jujube.

The person Wei Yan was waiting for was Jiang Wei, and the 10,000 soldiers brought by Jiang Wei were in place.

After Jiang Wei extinguished the fire in Puyang, he quickly calmed down the people in the city, and at the same time transferred Wen Qin to move from Dong'e to Puyang to ensure the stability of this intermediate node.

Because of the delay in these things, Jiang Wei arrived six days later than Wei Yan.

And when I arrived at Sujuo, I saw that Guo Huai was constantly reinforcing the city defenses, but he didn't even have a decent siege weapon in his own camp. Jiang Wei also felt strange, so he immediately went to see Wei Yan.

And after Wei Yan waited for Jiang Wei to come, he didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out the battle plan he thought of, ready to discuss it with Jiang Wei.

This plan, in fact, is very simple, and there is no technical content - encirclement and reinforcement.

Wei Yan decided to let Jiang Wei lead 20,000 soldiers to attack Yanjin, and he led more than 12,000 people to stay behind and block Guo Huai.

On the Yanjin side, only Jiang Ji led 5,000 soldiers to defend it, and Wei Yan needed Jiang Wei to attack Yanjin, and it was best to completely break through Yanjin in a short time.

Even if you can't break through Yanjin, you have to force Yanjin to be in a hurry and ask for help from the sour jujube.

As for Wei Yan, at this time, he can intercept Guo Huai's reinforcements outside Sujube City and fight a field battle with Guo Huai.

This is Wei Yan's plan to attack the city, Wei Yan didn't think about it at all, he just wanted to force Guo Huai to rescue Yanjin, and then fight a field battle with Guo Huai.

In the siege war, the combat effectiveness of the most elite northern and southern armies of the Han Dynasty could not be brought into play at all, and it was completely a downward strategy.

Once in the field. Don't say that you Guo Huai only have 8,000 people, even if it is twice as much, it is impossible to do more than the 10,000 elites of the Northern Army commanded by Wei Yan.

Therefore, the core of this tactic is to force Guo Huai to take the initiative to fight, and if Guo Huai is forced to take the initiative to fight, Yanjin is a very good bait.

This place is the place where Guo Huai has to save.

This is also why Wei Yan is most worried that Guo Huai will directly retreat to Yanjin, if he really wants to retreat to Yanjin, Wei Yan's tactic will be useless.

After listening to Wei Yan's plan, Jiang Wei pondered it for a while, and also felt that this matter was feasible, and he did not hesitate at the moment, and he didn't care about resting, so he immediately went out to order troops.

Jiang Wei had just arrived at the barracks in the morning, and in the afternoon he left the camp again and headed northeast with 20,000 mixed troops from the north and south.

And Guo Huai. Guo Huai is such an experienced person, Jiang Wei left as soon as he came, and took two-thirds of his troops with him at once, and headed in the direction of Yanjin, Guo Huai couldn't understand what was going on.

I was so tricked that old man Wei that I got it.

But the problem now is that Guo Huai has entered the sour jujube, and this place cannot be easily occupied by Shu thieves.

Now Guo Huai can only hope that Jiang Ji can hold on for a little longer, at least for ten days. There are about ten days left, and Cao Yu should complete the river crossing with 30,000 Chinese troops and enter Yanjin.

Once this support army arrives, not to mention the counterattack on the Shu thieves, at least hold the line of Sujube and Yanjin, and ensure that there should be no problem in their own retreat.

Of course, Guo Huai did not forget to send the latest battle report to Sima Yi on the front line of Chenliu, informing him of the current situation on the front line of Sujube and Yanjin.

Although Guo Huai doesn't like Sima Yi very much, and feels that Sima Yi harmed him and fell into the current field, Guo Huai is not so cautious at this moment of life and death.

It is necessary to let Sima Yi know the current situation of the back road, and at the same time, Guo Huai also hopes that Sima Yi can send some reinforcements to him, so as to be prepared in case Jiang Ji cannot hold in Yanjin.

Well, before the war is over, who knows if there will be any accidents.

It is necessary to plan ahead.

Of course, Sima Yi also knew this, but the problem was that when Guo Huai's request for help was sent to Yongqiu County, Chenliu County, Sima Yi was really numb.

Where can I find reinforcements for you?!

Lao Tzu is in the broken place of Yongqiu, with 60,000 people to block the 120,000 cavalry coalition army of Shu thieves, which is already quite difficult, and the loss of thousands of people in any place may mean the overall collapse of the defense line. Where can I get reinforcements for you?!

Sima Yi really wanted to catch Guo Huai for such a squirt but couldn't help it, Sima Yi also knew how difficult it was for Guo Huai now.

Originally, Guo Huai's troops were small, and the Shu thieves he faced were the most elite army, and being able to fight like this is already a reflection of Guo Huai's ability.

If you were replaced by Xiahou He, I am afraid that the army would have been defeated by now.

Reinforcements, if they can be had, they still have to be sent to Guo Huai, after all, the two places of sour jujube and Yanjin really can't afford to lose.

And at this time, Sima Yi also complained a little bit about his own reinforcements, how can they be like snails crawling, it's been almost a month, why haven't they been in place yet?!

It takes time for the imperial forbidden army to assemble and go south, and this Sima Yi can still have an understanding to some extent, but. What the hell did your son do, and why haven't the reinforcements from Hanoi County arrived yet?!

And this doubt is one of the reasons why the Wei army struggled so much in this battle of Yanzhou, and the communication efficiency between Yanzhou and Hedong was too low.

Until this time, Sima Yi didn't know that his precious eldest son had made a "great victory in Hedong" and was left in Hedong by Cao Rong.

And the reinforcements led by Qin Lang were stuck in Hanoi County by Zhang Xi at this time, and they were unwilling to go to Wen County to change their defenses easily.

After all, Qin Lang is not Sima Shi, and Sima Yi is not his old man's hurry!!

(End of chapter)