Wei Yan's news is closed and not very clear, but Guo Huai is very clear that his own cavalry has almost been wiped out, and now there can still be a cavalry raging in the land of Yanzhou, only the cavalry of the Shu thief.

In the same way, this can also explain why Chen Tai failed to stop this army of Shu thieves, and at the same time, his scouts did not detect the traces of this Shu thief - because it was cavalry.

Chen Tai's brain is stupid, so he will not use the advantage of defending the city, and use infantry to block the cavalry when he goes out of the city, and no matter how far his own scouts are to investigate, it is not as far as the cavalry's march in a morning.

What Guo Huai brought was also infantry, and it was impossible to confront the cavalry in the plain field battle, so Guo Huai had to choose to withdraw his troops immediately.

Otherwise, once it was entangled by Wei Yan's infantry, the two wings were attacked back and forth by the cavalry. Not to mention supporting the Tiger Prison Pass, you may be wiped out.

Therefore, Guo Huai had to take a big risk and immediately withdraw his troops from the battlefield.

On Wei Yan's side, the reaction was indeed a little slower, mainly because Wei Yan could not determine the purpose of this cavalry's attack, and he never dared to act rashly.

As for the banner in the smoke and dust raised by the cavalry during the attack, it is difficult to see whose banner this cavalry is flying.

Wei Yan only reacted when he saw that Guo Huai's army began to retreat in an orderly manner, leaving behind the pikemen, and then immediately waved his army to attack in an all-out way.

But unfortunately, Guo Huai withdrew too quickly, Wei Yan could only barely bite the broken pikemen, and cooperated with Pang De to encircle and suppress this group of broken troops, but Guo Huai's main force failed to stop it.

As for Pound, Pound could actually rely on the speed advantage of the cavalry to pursue, but Pound did not do that in the end.

The reason is very simple, in fact, Pang De has also reached the end of the crossbow, and there is not much dry food left for the cavalry in the army, and there is not much special cheese, if he pursues again, I am afraid that he will starve to death in the hinterland of Yanzhou.

Pang De was ordered to pursue the Wei army, after he followed Deng Ai to conquer Jiyang, the two made a division of labor Deng Ai went to pursue Sima Yi's main army, Pang De relied on the speed of the cavalry, to seize Fengqiu, open the door to attack Dongjun.

But Pang De didn't expect that the Wei army, under the leadership of Chen Tai, retreated so fast, and his four-legged cavalry was stunned that he couldn't catch up with the two-legged infantry, allowing Chen Tai to enter Fengqiu first.

In this way, Pound, who only has cavalry in his hand, cannot directly attack Fengqiu, and if he retreats, Pound is a little unwilling. After calculating the food stocks in the army, Pang De decided to go deep into the area north of Fengqiu, and loot and maintain supplies while destroying and disrupting the military deployment of the Wei army.

But who knows, after Fengqiu to the north, this way over, Pang De was stunned that he didn't find much place to supply, until he led his troops to Zhongmu County, Henan County, and was surprised to find that the head of Zhongmu County was actually hanging the banner of the Han Dynasty.

After inquiring, I learned that Wei Yan led his troops westward a few days ago, and after conquering Zhongmu County, he went to attack Tiger Prison Pass.

Pang De pondered, he was about to run out of food here, and Wei Yan should still have it in his hand. Otherwise, how could he have the confidence to attack the Tiger Prison Pass?!

Then, Pang De ran all the way, came to find Wei Yan to eat, and by the way, he fought a battle, and repelled Guo Huai's troops, but due to the lack of food and grass, Pang De did not dare to pursue.

And Wei Yan. Wei Yan's face was about to wrinkle the cucumber skin in the city. It's still the same old cucumber skin.

The rest of the grain and grass you have, save a little food, but it is only enough for 30,000 foot soldiers to eat for four or five days of your 20,000 cavalry, even people and horses, I am afraid that this little grain and grass in my hands will not last for two days!!

Well, there was already a shortage of food, and now. It's even more missing.

Pound's arrival made Wei Yan's army even more stretched, and Pound didn't expect that although his arrival helped Wei Yan, it also brought a greater burden to Wei Yan. Pang De, who was a little reluctant in his heart, took the initiative to think of Wei Yan's proposal, if it really doesn't work, when the food is exhausted, kill the horse to satisfy the hunger.

Although cavalry cannot do without horses, they will not easily kill horses. But people have to live.

This suggestion was rejected by Wei Yan.

The reason is very simple, Guo Huai has only temporarily retreated, and it does not mean that he will not come again. Killing horses to satisfy hunger is tantamount to clearly telling the enemy that their food and grass are exhausted.

At that time, the enemy army only needs to avoid without fighting, and dragging them can also drag them to death.

Therefore, Wei Yan's idea was: to inform the whole army of the lack of food and carry out the final attack tomorrow.

This is not a new trick, Cao Zhen used this method when he was under Tongguan, and the final result was that everyone fought for their lives and finally escaped.

There is no need to worry about whether the soldiers will be disheartened after hearing about this and flee for their lives in advance, in the absence of food and grass supplies, a single soldier will not be able to survive in this troubled world for too long.

Instead of being a deserter and starving to death in the wilderness, it is better to fight on the battlefield, and if you lose, you will just die in battle, which is better than starving to death.

Wei Yan has no choice now, his current position is almost the same as Cao Zhen's at that time, so naturally he can only make the same choice.

Wei Yan didn't blame Pang De either.

It is true that if Pang De does not come, Wei Yan may be able to hold out for another four or five days or so, but if Guo Huai is not repulsed, Wei Yan's current situation may be even more dangerous, and it is not a matter of a few days to usher in a turnaround.

So. There is no choice but to fight for your life.

And Wei Yan's side fought for his life, Wang Ling really couldn't stand it.

In the past, although Wei Yan's troops would also attack, most of the time they were mainly suppressed by arrows, after all, Wei Yan's army did not have any decent siege equipment, only temporary hook ladders, and the number was not large, so it could not pose too much threat to the Tiger Prison Pass.

But on this day's attack, Wei Yan not only took out all the remaining hooks and ladders in the army, but the Han army's will to attack was also extremely resolute. There were soldiers falling down from the hook ladder, but there was almost no interval, and countless soldiers would rush to the hook ladder.

Of course, if there is only pressure on Wei Yan's side, Wang Ling is not unable to deal with it, after all, the number of hook ladders in Wei Yan's army is limited, even if the soldiers are determined to fight, but as long as the hook ladder is burned, Wei Yanjun will have no pressure.

But the problem is that not long after Wei Yan launched the attack, Zhuge Liang, who was in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, also began to exert his strength.

Zhuge Liang not only has sufficient siege equipment here, but also under Zhuge Liang's military orders this time, he is quite ruthless.

If you don't go to the front, slash!

Those who don't obey the order will be killed!

Those who are afraid of the enemy are at a loss, slash!

The issuance of these three military orders directly showed Zhuge Liang's attitude.

You must know that Zhuge Liang rarely gives such a specific and strict military order when he fights with soldiers. Now, Zhuge Liang is really ruthless.

Yesterday day, Zhuge Liang found no signs of Wei Yan's attack behind the Tiger Prison Pass. This in itself is an abnormal thing.

Either Wei Yan withdrew his troops, or Wei Yan was in great trouble and was temporarily unable to attack.

And early this morning, Wei Yan attacked again, which means that the first possibility does not exist, it can only be that Wei Yan is in great trouble.

Zhuge Liang wasn't sure what trouble Wei Yan was in, but Wei Yan still insisted on launching an attack on Tiger Prison Pass after encountering a very big accident. If you think about it in a conventional way, Zhuge Liang will think that Wei Yan is a strong attack at the end of the crossbow.

Once the strong attack fails, then waiting for Wei Yan's result may not be too good.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang also ordered a strong attack, regardless of the casualties, he must capture the Tiger Prison Pass within one or two days.

As soon as Zhuge Liang's side attacked, Wang Ling's way of dealing with it was too few.

The strength itself is not enough, and it is too difficult to resist the rain of arrows that may be shot at any time on the head, and block the attack of the Shu thieves with the blessing of siege equipment.

What is even more difficult is that the current Tiger Prison defenders, the morale of the army has fallen to a rather dangerous level.

Yesterday, Guo Huai led the troops to appear behind the Tiger Prison Pass, and Wei Yan was forced to return to the army to wait for the enemy.

But the final result was that Empress Guo Huaicang withdrew, and there was no one in the blink of an eye, but the Shu thieves under the city were blessed by the troops and launched a quite strong onslaught today.

The Wei soldiers didn't know that Wei Yan had actually reached the end of the crossbow, and the food was about to run out, and they wouldn't calculate that the cavalry brought by Pang De would not help the siege too much, they just felt that they seemed to have been abandoned by the main force of the army.

If there were simply no reinforcements, maybe the morale of these soldiers would not have such a big impact, and the biggest blow was that there were reinforcements, but these reinforcements did not hesitate to leave them after being attacked by the enemy.

This feeling of hopelessness and despair is the most fatal.

And in this case, even Wang Ling felt that there was no need to stick to it.

He was already worthy of Cao Wei, and in the end, it was you Guo Huai who led the troops to help, but he did not hesitate to abandon the soldiers of the Tiger Prison Pass and retreat. Surrender at this time has nothing to do with my reputation.

Thinking of this, Wang Ling, who had been holding on for a morning, gathered his personal guards, and sent his own messenger outside the main gate.

If Zhuge Liang accepts, then open the door and surrender.

If you don't agree. I don't know if I'll be able to run out this time

(End of chapter)