Following Guo Huai's order, Guo Huai also left a thousand soldiers to guard the central army. The remaining soldiers of the central army went to the front army to support them, trying to defeat Wei Yan's army in the front and directly attack Zhang Xi's central army.
What Guo Huai needs to consider is not this battle, but also the next battle.
If you adopt the second strategy, although it is safe, if your casualties are not small, you will not have much strength left against Liu Bei's army next.
So Guo Huai decided to take a risk and send out the central army to open the door to victory from the front army.
After Guo Huai dispatched the Chinese army, the situation of the front army suddenly changed significantly.
Guo Huai's Chinese army, like Zhang Xi's, also had 3,000 men, and he also sent 2,000 men at a time.
With the aid of 2,000 men, Wei Yan could slowly turn the tide of the battle and suppress Cao Jun. With the aid of 2,000 Cao troops, Cao Jun could naturally suppress Wei Yan again.
This situation also put Zhang Xi under a lot of pressure.
Now, I still have a thousand Chinese troops on hand, should I send them all out? !
But once they are all sent out, the people around him will really become a polished commander.
But if he didn't send out, once Wei Yan's front army couldn't hold on, wouldn't he also be doomed? !
Since everything was going to be ruined, Zhang Xi called Liang Xu and ordered him to take the last thousand men of the Chinese army directly into the battle with the front army.
Don't leave anyone by your side.
Although Zhang Xi's move this time was very courageous, Guo Huai was also a little excited to see it. If he sent a thousand Chinese troops to raid Zhang Xi's main formation now, would he be able to easily capture this undefended man? The enemy commander? !
Don't tell me, Guo Huai is really moved.
But just when his heart was moved but before he could take action, chaos suddenly appeared on his left wing.
The right wing of the Shu army, which was originally in charge of the defense of the vehicle formation, suddenly gave up its defensive position with thousands of soldiers and attacked the central army.
Guo Huai was immediately shocked.
There were more defensive soldiers on the right side of the Shu army than on the left. Guo Huai had noticed this a long time ago, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, the left wing of the Shu army has Zhang Fei's camp responsible for assisting defense, so it is understandable that there are fewer soldiers. However, the right wing of the Shu army is directly facing a large-scale attack by its own cavalry, so it is normal to have more soldiers.
Unexpectedly, there were so many soldiers. It turned out that they had been hiding all this time and were attacking their own formation at this time.
Guo Huai was surprised, but Guo Huai was not panicked.
Guo Huai had sent detailed inquiries about the generals under Zhang Xi's tent. He even had a head-on confrontation with Wei Yan, and Guo Huai knew all of them. And these generals were all in charge of defense lines everywhere, and no one could get away at all.
And these days' soldiers, if there is no unified command, it is impossible to achieve an effective assault, let alone direct dialogue with Guo Huai's Chinese army.
Therefore, although Guo Huai was surprised, he felt that without the command of a general and only relying on the leadership of some unknown captains, it was impossible to break through his Chinese defense.
After all, Guo Huai still has a thousand soldiers that he has not used.
At this time, Guo Huai saw two large flags raised among the attacking Shu army.
One side is the flag with the word "Ju", and the other side is the flag with the word "Jiang".
As these two large flags unfolded, the three thousand soldiers of the Shu army were also divided into two. Two thousand of them followed the "Jiang" flag and the other one thousand moved with the "Ju" flag.
Guo Huai was unfamiliar with these two flags, but once they separated their forces, Guo Huai was immediately embarrassed.
In Guo Huai's hands, there are only a thousand Chinese troops to guard. Once the enemy divides his troops, he must also divide his troops to resist. However, this involves the issue of the main direction of attack - which person is the main general in attacking his own Chinese army, and which talent? A suspected soldier? !
General Ju Fu, Guo Huai knew that Zhang Xi had a general named Ju Fu, but this man was not mentioned in the battle reports of several battles, and he seemed to be young. Guo Huai sometimes guessed whether Which descendant of a well-known Shu family was sent here to gain seniority.
As for the general named Jiang, as expected, he should be from the Tianshui Jiang family.
Compared to the unclear general named Ju, the general named Jiang poses a greater threat to Guo Huai. The Jiang family is from a wealthy Tianshui family, so it does not seem strange to have a qualified general in the family.
In addition, General Jiang led two thousand people, while General Ju only led one thousand people. Guo Huai almost subconsciously judged that General Jiang was the main attacker of this sneak attack on his own formation.
After Guo Huai made his judgment, he immediately ordered that his remaining 1,000 Chinese troops be divided, with 700 men going to stop General Jiang and 300 staying by his side, relying on the Chinese military camp to stop General Ju. attack.
But now, the real decisive point has appeared.
In the end, it was Guo Huai's front army that defeated Zhang Xi's front army first, broke into the empty middle army, and captured Zhang Xi alive, or Zhang Xi's assault force defeated Guo Huai's middle army, and captured Guo Huai alive.
Guo Huai feels that his advantages are quite obvious.
At least there was someone around him blocking him, but there was no one around Zhang Xi.
Even if Wei Yan's front army missed a small team of Cao's troops, Zhang Xi would definitely be able to capture them without help.
Don't tell me, Zhang Xi is actually very nervous right now, so nervous that he feels like his heart will jump out. His life is at stake in these most critical minutes.
In this situation, Zhang Xi thought that he would be so nervous that his hands and feet were shaking, but the actual situation was that although Zhang Xi was very nervous, his hands and feet did not react at all. Zhang Xi even touched his hand that he usually used for decoration. He used a sword and thought about it. Someone was really going to kill him soon. What moves should he use to kill the enemy? Sun Shangxiang taught Zhang Xi a few moves when he was playing with his wife on weekdays, hoping they would work.
Zhang Xi's calmness was beyond his imagination, but Guo Huai's side had really drawn out his sword.
Guo Huai made a fatal error in his judgment. The thousand soldiers led by General Ju were the elite of the assault. Under the command of Ju Fu, these people broke through Guo Huai's three armies in less than a cup of tea. The defense line set up by a hundred people had now carved out a passage, and under the leadership of General Ju, they rushed towards him.
Jufu is now the one whose hands and feet are really trembling. His great achievements are in front of him, but he cannot let this big fish get away.
When Guo Huai saw Jufu leading people to kill him, he didn't care about sitting in the central army tent.
On the one hand, he asked his own soldiers to issue orders for the remaining 700 central and front army troops to return for reinforcements. On the other hand, he drew his own sword and wanted to kill the enemy with his own soldiers and buy time.
But the problem is that Jufu opened a gap and several hundred people came in, while on Guo Huai's side, including his personal guards, there were only about twenty people. What the heck.
Guo Huai wanted to resist, but Guo Huai's personal soldiers would not let Guo Huai take this risk. While sending people to intercept, they also had people holding Guo Huai's back and kept retreating, at least to the point where the 700-man Chinese army In the Guards, make further plans.
Jufu continued to advance with his army, but was blocked by Guo Huai's personal guards. Although he killed four or five of his personal guards, he could only watch as Guo Huai was about to leave his sight.
Jufu immediately led his troops to pursue him, but before leaving, Jufu did not forget to cut off Guo Huai's flag. On the battlefield, once the flag is broken, it basically means that the leader is killed or flees, which is a blow to the morale of the army. It's huge.
Guo Huai wanted to save it, but this was not a problem that he could solve by shouting twice. The battlefield was too big, and the soldiers could not hear it without using a loudspeaker.
What's more, Guo Huai is not safe now. He is still being chased by Jufu. Until Guo Huai joins the 700-strong Chinese Guards, he still faces the fate of being flanked by Jufu and Jiang Wei.
Guo Huai really didn't dare to lead more troops in the central army, so he quickly led his people to the front army. With the remaining 3,000 people in the front army, he finally saved his life temporarily.
But the current battlefield situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Because the front army retreated to meet him, Wei Yan seized the opportunity and bit his tail. He might break through the front army's blocking troops and come over at any time.
On the Chinese side, Jufu and Jiang Wei had already joined forces and were heading towards him.
The armies on the left and right wings, and the army on the left wing, were better. Although they were a little panicked, there was no external threat after all, they were just a little overwhelmed.
But the right-wing army was greatly shaken when they saw Guo Huai's commanding flag fall. As a veteran general, how could Zhang Fei miss such a good opportunity.
Part of the right-wing army was surrounded by the infantry commanded by Zhang Fei, and the cavalry, which had lost its speed, could no longer exert its original advantages when facing the infantry, and could be surrounded and killed by Zhang Fei's infantry at any time. The other part of the cavalry that was not surrounded was panicked because the commander's flag fell, and they were already showing signs of fleeing.
When Guo Huai saw this situation, he immediately made a choice - to go to the left cavalry team. There was no danger there and the troops were relatively intact.
I failed in today's battle, but it doesn't mean that I have completely lost.
As long as the cavalry team on the left wing is united, the troops are temporarily withdrawn to Pingxiang County, and then the defeated troops are collected in Pingxiang County, there will be a chance to attack Ji County again.
After all, although the siege failed, more than half of his main cavalry was left, and there was not much loss. On the contrary, the losses of the defenders of Ji County this time were definitely greater than themselves.
Retreating temporarily does not mean that you will lose forever. As long as Governor Cao's reinforcements move north and block the Longshan Road, it is not certain who will win by then.
At this point, Guo Huai was not discouraged. He really felt that he still had the capital to fight until he saw a large number of cavalry appearing in the southeast of Hebei County.
A large number of Qiang and Hu cavalry, numbering at least 20,000.
The smoke and dust were so thick that Guo Huai couldn't see clearly the appearance of the leading generals, and could only see two flags fluttering in the wind.
One side says "Mighty General" and the other side says "Horse".
Ma Chao finally appeared at this most critical moment.
Sorry, there are only two chapters today. I may have been tricked. I am so weak that I will ask for leave the day after tomorrow. Please.
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