To tell the truth, Guo Huai actually didn't want to play any king-to-king vs. king-to-king duel with Wei Yan.

Guo Huai's purpose was to quickly go out of the city to meet the reinforcements led by Jia Chong, naturally the faster the better, and the lower the battle damage, the better. The most worrying thing is to be entangled by Shu thieves.

If you fight with Wei Yan on the battlefield, you will be relieved, but you will definitely delay Jia Chong.

This is not in line with Guo Huai's purpose of going out of the city to fight.

Of course, if Guo Huai can be sure enough to directly kill Wei Yan, in fact, it is not impossible to choose a decisive battle against generals. But Guo Huai knew that he couldn't do this.

Although Guo Huai is very confident in his martial arts value, although Wei Yan on the other side is now in his fifties, it is inevitable that he will be old and frail. In fact, Guo Huai's age is not much better, and Wei Yan on the opposite side is also famous for his martial arts.

If you really want to fight with Wei Yan, the final result can only be that you are dragged under the sour jujube city, and Jia Chong can only rely on his own ability to break through.

Judging from the current situation, Jia Chong may be able to stabilize the defensive line, but it may be difficult to break through the Shu thieves in front of him.

Therefore, Guo Huai decisively avoided a head-on confrontation with Wei Yan and began to lead his soldiers to the edge of the battlefield.

On the one hand, widening the distance between him and Wei Yan can take a detour to pick up Jia Chong, and if something is wrong, he can also retreat from the south gate of Sujube City in a roundabout way.

On the other hand, do you Wei Yan follow?!

If Wei Yan didn't follow, then Guo Huai would not have any hesitation, and would definitely choose to take a detour to support Jia Chong, and after joining forces with Jia Chong, he would take a detour again to withdraw the sour jujube.

And if Wei Yan ran with him, the pressure on the frontal battlefield would drop sharply, and Jia Chong would have more opportunities to adjust.

As long as Jia Chong is not a fool, seeing that he is so roundabout and after Wei Yan withdraws from the frontal battlefield, he will definitely learn from himself and march in a roundabout way from the opposite direction, striving to march from the north gate of Suozao City.

In this way, although he is a little more dangerous, Jia Chong can finally withdraw into the sour jujube safely.

As for himself, Guo Huai is still confident that he can take most of his soldiers and safely withdraw to the city under Wei Yan's attack.

Guo Huai made up his mind and immediately began to move towards the edge of the battlefield, observing Wei Yan's reaction as he moved.

And Wei Yan was also slightly stunned after seeing Guo Huai adjust the direction of his march. Wei Yan still hopes to fight Guo Huai.

Guo Huai thought that he did not grasp the battle to kill Wei Yan, but Wei Yan felt that it was an acceptable choice to have such a chance to face off head-to-head and decide the outcome in a battle.

The positions of the two sides are different, and the mentality is naturally different.

Guo Huai is the defender, he wants to ask for stability, as long as the defense line is stabilized, then Wei Yan can't do anything with him.

And Wei Yan is the attacker, and Wei Yan's military operation itself is a military adventure, and the worst case scenario is that the whole army may be wiped out. A little more adventurous, it's really nothing.

Therefore, Wei Yan was deliberately luring Guo Huai out of the city, and then tried to see if there was any possibility of beheading Guo Huai.

It's a pity that Guo Huai went out of the city, but this old boy didn't want to fight with Wei Yan at all, which was indeed a bit unexpected by Wei Yan, and it also made Wei Yan fall into the choice of "follow or not".

This is an inherent thinking, Guo Huai's behavior guides Wei Yan to think in this direction, and the situation on the battlefield is very tense, and it is difficult for ordinary people to think outside of this thinking framework.

But Wei Yanneng is one of the pillars of the Mesozoic generals of the Han Dynasty, if he only has this ability, he will not be able to do his current position.

After a slight hesitation, Wei Yan made his choice.

Why do you have to choose one between following and not following Guo Huai's purpose of going out of the city must be to receive reinforcements, so no matter what strategy you use, the final implementation point must be on the reinforcements.

In this case, Lao Tzu will gather his own troops and attack Ling's reinforcements.

Wei Yan jumped out of the thinking trap set by Guo Huai for him, and made the choice that worried Guo Huai the most - to lead the troops to counterattack Jia Chong's department.

Now Jia is full of blood mold.

Originally, Jia Chong had a nearly two-to-one advantage in troops, and it was not easy to barely stabilize the front, and with Wei Yan's army coming to attack, the ratio of troops was reduced to one to one.

Not to mention that the individual combat effectiveness of the Han Forbidden Army is stronger than that of the Yanzhou County soldiers led by Jia Chong, even if the combat strength of the soldiers is the same, with Jia Chong's military formation experience, in the face of Wei Yan, it is also a share of being hanged.

Jia Chong's position, which was finally stabilized, was immediately beaten in a precarious position under the first wave of attacks after Wei Yan's arrival.

The entire battlefield is full of loopholes, no matter how Jia Chong orders adjustments, how he arranges people to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, he can only be tired of coping.

At this time, Guo Huai was still on the way to help on the edge of the battlefield.

Guo Huai also knew the consequences of Wei Yan going to attack Jia Chong, so Guo Huai was already desperately moving closer to Jia Chong, and now Guo Huai only hoped that Jia Chong could hold on for a while and hold on until he led the troops.

As long as he leads the troops to support him in place, and personally leads the troops to entangle and confront Wei Yan, he is still sure to bring the main force of these reinforcements back to Suozao City.

Yes, Guo Huai has this certainty, but the premise is that Jia Chong must defend it before he leads troops in place.

Ke Jia Chong. Jia Chong did not hold on.

In other words, Jia Chong didn't mean to wait for Guo Huai's arrival at all.

Jia Chong didn't choose to retreat in desperation after being completely broken through the defense line by Wei Yan, he actually chose to take the initiative to retreat when his own defense line could barely be maintained.

Those who showed it to Guo Huai were all anxious.

This Jia Chong, do you know what the result of choosing to retreat in this situation is?!

Moreover, when Jia Chong chose to retreat, he still had at least seven or eight thousand troops in his hands, and at the same time, Guo Huai had already led his troops to the place where Jia Chong flanked five miles away, as long as he held on for a little more than two quarters of an hour or so, Guo Huai would be able to support in place.

But it was in this situation that Jia Chong chose to take the initiative to retreat.

And the reason why Jia Chong did this was purely because Jia Chong judged that if he continued to be beaten so passively, he was likely to face the end of the entire army.

Of course, it doesn't matter if he Jia Chong dies or not, the key is that he can't die here.

On the one hand, Jia Chong is only eighteen years old, still young, and has a great future waiting for him.

On the other hand, Jia Chong didn't think that Guo Huai could support him in time Guo Huai was too far away, a quarter of an hour ago he was in the direction of his flank six miles, and a quarter of an hour later, he moved to the position of five miles.

This has to wait for Guo Huai to respond to rescue him, it is better to find a way to protect himself.

As for the life and death of his subordinates and Guo Huai's position, Jia Chong has considered it, but there are really not many.

Speaking of which, this can be regarded as Jia Kui's failure in Jia Chong's education over the years. Compared with Jia Kui of the Gongzhong Country, Jia Chong cares more about his own personal interests.

He will also take into account the interests of the country, but he always puts personal interests first.

Therefore, Guo Huai was counting on him to grit his teeth and desperately maintain the defense line, waiting for him to come over to answer, he was completely blind. In the face of such an unfavorable battlefield situation, Jia Chong must have given priority to protecting himself.

Therefore, when Guo Huai had already moved to the flank, Jia Chong saw that the situation was not good, and directly ordered the whole army to retreat.

And in the passive situation, the defense line was abandoned, the whole army retreated, and all the Wei troops fell into a state of confusion and flight.

What's even worse is that after Jia Chong issued the order to withdraw the army, he immediately retreated to the rear under the protection of his personal guards, and there was no effort at all to arrange who would retreat first, and who would retreat after breaking off directly turned into a rout.

Jia Chong's withdrawal, not only did he leave his soldiers behind, but even Guo Huai was sold by Jia Chong. Guo Huai has already arrived at the place where Jia Chong's flank is five miles.

In other words, in fact, now Guo Huai has returned to the center of the battlefield.

Wei Yan also didn't expect that Jia Chong would choose to retreat in this situation, and now Wei Yan has two choices.

One, regardless of Guo Huai, directly pursued the scattered Wei army.

If you do this, not only will you break the enemy in a battle, but if you are lucky, it is not impossible to capture Jia Chong alive.

The other is to ignore this defeated army and choose to attack with all its strength the 5,000 people of Guo Huai's department who have moved to the flank.

Well, Wei Yan chose the second option.

After all, a reckless young man is just a little capable, but it is not enough to turn the whole tide of battle.

But Guo Huai is different!!

Guo Huai, if he can leave him on the battlefield outside the city, then all the strategic situations after that will be opened up at once.

Wei Yan didn't have a chance before, Guo Huai either didn't go to battle, or ran to the edge of the battlefield after the battle, fighting in a roundabout way, but now, he was placed by Jia Chong and directly thrown on the flank.

This time, if you Guo Huai want to withdraw the sour dates, I'm afraid it won't be so easy!!

(End of chapter)