Wei Yan tried his best, but he still couldn't leave Guo Huai outside the sour jujube city.

Guo Huai is Guo Huai in the end, and even if Cao Wei's old famous generals are placed among those famous generals in Cao Wei's early days, Guo Huai can have his own place.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jia Chong retreated and sold himself in front of Wei Yan, Guo Huai gave the order almost without any thought, and let his soldiers retreat to the edge of the battlefield in a roundabout way.

It is necessary to find a way to reopen the distance between him and Wei Yan's troops and horses, so that Guo Huai will have room to withdraw the sour jujube later.

As for Jia Chong, you don't care if you die!!

Now Guo Huai already hates Jia Chong to death, and he no longer has any heart to cherish his talents.

If the ability and potential shown by Jia Chong before could still make Guo Huai tempted, now what Jia Chong has done has made Guo Huai desperate.

Selling teammates sells so smoothly, how can you expect this product to grow up in the future and be able to take on big things?!

Or rather, who would want to work with such a decent thing?!

Therefore, Guo Huai retreated directly, and he didn't care if you Wei Yan was chasing Jia Chong or not.

Of course, Guo Huai didn't expect that Wei Yan didn't want to let go of his greater military exploits, and chose to chase him along the way, and Guo Huai also paid a lot of price.

After all, Guo Huai chose to retreat back to the edge of the battlefield, although he could widen the distance between him and Wei Yan, but the distance he withdrew from the sour jujube was also extended.

Along the way, although Guo Huai was retreating as fast as possible, Wei Yan's pursuit was not slow, always biting the rear wing of Guo Huai's department, constantly pursuing and attacking, and constantly killing and injuring Guo Huai's department.

But Guo Huai didn't dare to stop and reorganize the formation and arrange the break. There are 5,000 people himself, and nearly 10,000 people under Wei Yan's command are pursuing, but if he stops for a while, then don't think that he can retreat.

Therefore, Guo Huai could only retreat desperately all the way, fleeing all the way back to sour jujube, and did not dare to turn back at all.

The price caused was that Wei Yan followed and chased all the way, and more than 1,700 people were killed and wounded.

The casualties of 2,000 people also made Guo Huai's defenders in Suozao drop from 9,000 to more than 7,000.

As for the reinforcements from Jia Chong's department, Guo Huai no longer counted on it.

Let's not talk about Jia Chong's boldness, will he organize the rout army to assemble again and come to the sour date to support. Even if he can come, with the morale of this army now, letting them enter the sour jujube will only be good at all, and there will be no harm.

Originally, the defenders of the sour jujube were all defeated troops who withdrew from Puyang City, and the morale of the army was not too high.

With such an army, it is impossible to hold the sour dates.

Therefore, Guo Huai did not expect Jia Chong to be able to gather the defeated army again, but chose to write two letters to deal with the current situation.

One was for Jiang Ji at the Yanjin Ferry.

Guo Huai asked Jiang Ji, no matter what way he used, at least to find a way to bring himself 10,000 reinforcements.

Otherwise, the sour jujube will be lost, and Yanjin may not be able to hold it.

The other letter was addressed to Sima Yi in Yongqiu.

Guo Huai sued Jia Chong on the spot, hoping that Sima Yi could be dealt with directly by military law after Jia Chong returned. By the way, ask Sima Yi if it is still possible to send some reinforcements to himself.

The sour jujube is too important, if you can't keep the sour jujube, the Shu thieves will directly drill into the rear of the entire Yanzhou Wei army.

When the time comes, whether the Shu thieves go north to besiege Yanjin and completely cut off everyone's retreat, or go south to help the war, attack Fengqiu, or even Jiyang, it will be no small threat.

Especially if the Shu thieves attack Jiyang, the grain land of the Yanzhou Legion, then it doesn't matter if Yanjin is not in hand, and the entire Yanzhou Legion will collapse on the spot.

After the two letters were sent, Guo Huai breathed a sigh of relief, and then. The Shu thieves outside the city have increased their troops.

The 10,000 soldiers and horses sent by Jiang Wei to reinforce Wei Yan finally converged with Wei Yan under the leadership of Yan Zhi.

Now outside the city of Sujujube, Wei Yan has a total of 21,000 troops in his hands.

And Guo Huai is now left with 7,000 people.

With a three-to-one military comparison, the Wei army has just experienced another defeat. Now the Shu thieves have the confidence to attack the jujube, and the preconditions for encircling the point to send reinforcements are also available again.

Guo Huai suddenly began to have a headache.

Guo Huai is still just having a headache here, and Sima Yi is already starting to get anxious.

In this battle, why is there not a single military operation that can make you worry?!

On Yongqiu's side, Cao Shuang, the second fool, is like a fool, let him serve as the answering envoy, this thing is stunned to guard the rear and not send troops, and the reasons are still one set.

In the end, Sima Yi had to let Cao Shuang lead his troops back to Yongqiu, so that Sima Yi could draw enough troops to support Chen Tai, who was camping outside the city, and help him stabilize the defensive line.

But in this way, the defensive depth in Sima Yi's defensive concept is completely gone, and the next time Chen Tai encounters an unstable defensive line again, there will be no back road at all, and he must fight hard outside the city.

But anyway, this matter can be solved, but what's going on with Jia Chong's side?!

What the hell is Jia Liangdao doing?!

Even if you don't have a good enough general to lead the troops to support the sour date, you can't let an eighteen-year-old and a half-old son go to battle, right?!

Well, even if you have faith in your son and think he is capable of doing the task. But look at the trouble going on now.

He was good at advocating, cowardly the enemy, the reinforcements were not sent to Guo Huai, not to mention, and almost killed Guo Huai outside the sour jujube city, do you know how important the sour jujube is to the back road of our army? !

It's no wonder that Guo Huai would complain so much, and he would sue an eighteen-year-old and a half-year-old child. Judging from the situation described in the military newspaper, it is really not that Guo Huai is not tolerant of juniors, it is purely that this kid is not a human thing.

Can. Sima Yi really can't punish Jia Chong.

Jia Chong's work is really not authentic, but he has a good father.

Jia Kui, whether it is qualifications or ability, is now one of the best existences in the Great Wei court, and Jia Kui's reputation has always been very good, even the son of heaven Cao Rong has praised Jia Kui several times as a model of public loyalty to the country, and has been trusted by two generations of Cao Wei emperors.

No matter what Sima Yi is, he has to take into account Jia Kui's thoughts.

Therefore, Sima Yi thought about this matter for a long time, and finally decided to temporarily withhold Guo Huai's military report, and wait until after the war to discuss this matter privately with Jia Kui.

It is impossible to punish crimes, but it is still necessary to let Jia Liangdao know what this junior has done. It needs more discipline.

Now, let's get back to reality.

Guo Huai wants reinforcements, but Sima Yi's side can't make it up anyway.

Sima Yi has already sent reinforcements to the front line of Sujube and Yanjin three times in a row, but each time it is a drop in the bucket, and the front line of Sour Zao and Yanjin is always in an emergency, and there is no day when the front line is really stabilized.

Sometimes, Sima Yi doesn't know how to think about whether the Shu thief is too powerful, or his own family is too incompetent?!

Sima Yi really has no soldiers in his hands, and now that Sima Yi has this little force, he doesn't feel that it is enough to defend Yongqiu, where can he send another batch of reinforcements to Guo Huai?!

Therefore, Sima Yi could only reply to Guo Huai and ask him to hold on for a little longer.

However, Sima Yi also knows that no matter how insistent Guo Huai is, I am afraid that he will not be able to completely guarantee the safety of the sour jujube. In this case, Sima Yi had to start thinking about the real way back.

Is it necessary to continue to be in Yanzhou and continue to consume so much with the Shu thieves.

Sima Yi can also see the current strategy of the Shu thieves, that is, to contain the main force of the Yanzhou Wei army with heavy troops in the front, and to raid the eastern county of Yanzhou with a partial division, trying to cut off the retreat of the Yanzhou Wei army, so as to achieve the goal of trapping the main force of the Yanzhou Wei army.

On the side of Chenliujun, it is the main battlefield of the front line, and the first line of Yanjin and Sujube is the main battlefield of the back road.

To crack this game, in fact, it is difficult to say, and it is easy to say.

To put it simply, it is because the situation in Yanzhou has deteriorated.

The four counties in the south of Yanzhou have been lost, the three counties of Chenliu, Jiyin, and Shanyang in the central part of the country, Shanyang County are almost undefended, Jia Kui of Jiyin County is defended in Dingtao, and Chenliu County is defending itself.

And half of the eastern counties in the north also fell into the hands of Shu thieves.

To put it bluntly, now that Yanzhou has lost more than half of it, it is actually not a big deal to lose the rest of the place.

And this is Sima Yi's last backhand - abandoning Chenliu, leading the troops straight to the first line of Sujube and Yanjin, defeating Wei Yan's troops and horses, recovering Puyang and Dong'e, opening up the passage of Taishan County, and retreating to the south of the Yellow River.

Don't you Shu thieves want to cut off my back road, it doesn't matter, Lao Tzu led the main force to retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River, shrink the defense line, compress the so-called "back road", so that the Shu thieves have no "back road" to break.

As for the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Wei Yan's hands, no matter how strong the combat power is, can he escape under the encirclement and suppression of my nearly 100,000 troops?!

In this way, there is no threat from the back road, and Sima Yi only needs to deal with the frontal Xu Shu's department.

This is Sima Yi's last backhand, and the biggest difficulty of this backhand is in the imperial court.

The imperial court would definitely not want to see Yanzhou fall to only two counties, not only the Son of Heaven would not want to see it, but the ministers would not be happy to see it.

If Sima Yi adopts such a strategy without authorization, then even if he holds the south bank of the Yellow River, he will inevitably bear the responsibility for the loss of Yanzhou after returning to the DPRK in the future.

And if Sima Yi goes to the court first, it is up to the court to decide whether to adopt such a strategy. It's too long to go back and forth, and when the court makes a decision, even if Yanjin can hold it, Guo Huai of the sour jujube may not be able to hold it.

If the sour dates are lost, even if Sima Yi's strategy is approved by the imperial court and implemented, there will be a lot of variables.

Therefore, Sima Yi must make a choice now.

Whether to report to the imperial court, wait for the will of the imperial court, or decide on your own.

(End of chapter)