Strictly speaking, the battle situation has progressed so far, and it has not exceeded the expectations of the generals on both sides.
The tactical adjustments made by Zhang Xi and Guo Huai were actually within the controllable range of both sides. Although it was a bit troublesome, they could still cope with the situation.
The current overall battle situation is slightly favorable to Zhang Xi, but Guo Huai is not without the capital to deal with it.
What Guo Huai is waiting for is an opportunity, an opportunity that allows him to use his backhand to strike back.
In the current battlefield situation, Zhang Xi has basically made all the adjustments he can make, except for the 100 soldiers who were used to defend the Chinese Army. However, in Guo Huai's hands, there are still 300 Chinese soldiers that have not been mobilized. .
Although Wen Qin of Cao Wei's former army had a hard time with it, but compared with the strength of the troops, it is not impossible that he would not be able to resist for a while. Maybe Guo Huai still has patience now.
Guo Huai was waiting, waiting for Zhang Xi's three-way front army and Wen Qin's front army to be completely strangled together, so that he could use his back force.
And this time will not be very long, but in about a stick of incense, Guo Huai will have the opportunity he wants.
After seeing Wen Qin fall into the siege of Feng Xi, Zhang Nan, and Chen Shi, Guo Huai decisively ordered the Chinese army to temporarily leave the battlefield.
Zhang Xi was somewhat surprised by this.
By doing this, Guo Huai is putting Wenqin into a tight siege and not caring about what the old boy is going to do? !
And soon, Zhang Xi knew Guo Huai's intention.
Zhang Xi watched Guo Huai's central army regroup a little further back, and then, under the personal leadership of Guo Huai, began to make a circuitous route, starting from the right wing of Zhang Xi's army, trying to bypass Zhang Nan's right wing attacking army.
Zhang Xi's mind began to spin crazily. He looked at the situation in front of him, at the entanglement of the front army, and at Guanqiu Jian's cruising troops on the left wing who had been trying to get rid of interference. Zhang Xi probably understood Guo Huai's tactics.
This is to use Wen Qin as a bait to contain his front army, and the central army and cruising troops will outflank and attack his central army directly.
Indeed, this is a good idea.
Zhang Xi's front army was attacking Guo Huai's front army with all its strength, but at this time, Guo Huai personally led the troops to make a detour. Even if Zhang Xi's front army broke through Wen Qin's blockage, it would not be able to pose any threat to Guo Huai.
Guo Huai was no longer at his original position as a central force, and when he rushed over, it was just an empty space.
On the contrary, now Guo Huai personally leads the army to attack Zhang Xi's main formation.
As Guo Huai led the army to attack from the right wing, Zhang Xi would definitely mobilize his soldiers in the center to meet the enemy. This would also create an opportunity for Guan Qiujian on the left wing to directly attack the Chinese army.
At that time, Guan Qiujian only needs to leave half of his troops to deal with the harassing troops sent by Feng Xi, and the remaining half can attack Zhangxi's main formation, which has no soldiers to defend it.
In other words, the other way around.
This is tantamount to using Wen Qin and the five hundred people he led in exchange for the chance of victory for the entire army.
Although emotionally sorry for Wen Qin and the 500 Cao soldiers he led by doing so, the principle of not being in charge of soldiers will remain the mainstream for a long time.
After understanding Guo Huai's combat intentions, Zhang Xi didn't have much time to express his feelings. The first thing he had to do now was to come up with a response strategy.
The Chinese army was too small in number to split its forces into two fronts, so Zhang Xi had to make certain choices.
It is impossible to summon the entire front army to return for reinforcements. Once the entire front army is summoned to return for reinforcements, Wen Qin will definitely not miss the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and Guo Huai may not attack the Chinese army again, but will flank the front army. If the control is not good, it will turn from a reinforcement to a rout.
Therefore, after Zhang Xi thought for a short time, he immediately ordered Feng Xi to lead his 200 troops to return for reinforcements, but not directly to return to the Chinese army's main formation, but to intercept Guanqiu Jian's cruising troops.
In this way, we can not only continue to maintain pressure on Wenqin's troops, preventing Wenqin from directly launching a counterattack, but also mobilize some troops to support the Chinese army in combat.
Fortunately, the Wuzhangyuan highland is not big and there is no way for the cavalry to be lined up, so Guanqiu Jian's cruising troops are still mainly infantry. They don't move too fast, and there are soldiers harassing and restraining them all the way. Now if Feng Xi wants to return to the army, he can still blocked.
However, with Feng Xi's withdrawal, Zhang Xi's front army only had two troops, Chen Shi and Zhang Nan. The left wing was no longer able to effectively suppress Wen Qin's troops, which would give Wen Qin more room for action.
Although from the perspective of military strength, the two armies of Feng Xi and Zhang Nan still have a military advantage combined, the advantage is no longer too great.
As for the 300-man right-wing assault force led by Guo Huai himself, Zhang Xi did not mobilize Zhang Nan to return reinforcements. Instead, he organized the army himself and went to intercept it with a hundred soldiers.
Although Zhang Xi uses his troops cautiously, he will not hesitate at all when it is time to be decisive.
Three hundred against one hundred, although Zhang Xi's troops are indeed weak, but as the three generals said, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road! ! !
After Zhang Xi personally led the troops into battle, Zhuge Liang, who was watching the battle in the rear camp, suddenly frowned.
This use of troops is really a bit irrational.
One thing to say is that from the beginning of the war to the present, Zhuge Liang did not have much objection to Zhang Xi's initial use of troops.
When it comes to commanding operations, to put it bluntly, all strategies and adjustments are aimed at creating a local advantage in military strength.
No matter how large or small the total force is, as long as it can create a local strength advantage at key positions and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, it is very likely to result in a crushing defeat. It is not impossible to defeat a large number with a small number.
Zhang Xi's use of troops in the early stage focused on the battle for the front army. Whether it was a rush attack or a three-pronged advance, it was all to create a local strength advantage in the front army.
Once we can succeed in defeating Wen Qin's front army and attacking Guo Huai's central army, we can decide in one battle.
But after that, Zhang Xi's response was somewhat inferior to Guo Huai's.
Guo Huai's back-up plan was also to create a local strength advantage. He used a roundabout assault method from two wings. Once he led his troops close to Zhang Xi's Chinese army, he could instantly create a three-to-one strength ratio.
As for Zhang Xi, after several adjustments, Feng Xi from the left led troops back to stop Guanqiu Jian, but the strength ratio was three hundred to two hundred. The strength ratio between the former army Chen Shi, Zhang Nan and the enemy Wen Qin was , six hundred versus five hundred. Although they do have an advantage, these advantages are not enough to cause a decisive effect in a short period of time.
Therefore, once Zhang Xi's 100 soldiers could not withstand the attack of Guo Huai's 300 soldiers, they would immediately face the result of the entire army being defeated.
Guo Huai's creation of local strength advantage is obviously better than Zhang Xi's.
At the current moment of the battle, Zhang Xi's situation has changed from Zhang Xi's situation to Guo Huai's situation.
Not to mention that Zhuge Liang feels this way, even Guo Huai feels the same way. If I can't win with 300 people beating you with 100 people, then I'll just go back to the camp and wear women's clothes.
Guo Huai confidently led Zhang Xi's central army to launch a roundabout assault. Without any harassment or delay from his soldiers, it only took about a quarter of an hour to roundabout from the flank and attack with a hundred troops led by Zhang Xi. The Chinese army took over.
However, Guo Huai's expected easy defeat of the enemy did not appear.
This really surprised Guo Huai.
The strength comparison was three to one, and the number of people was only three hundred to one hundred. It was impossible for the back and forth to last long.
This is not a question of proportion, but a question of numbers.
Under the same circumstances, even if the battle loss ratio is one to one, it is Zhang Xijun who suffers.
Guo Huai's army suffered fifty casualties, and he still had 250. Once Zhang Xi's army suffered fifty casualties, there would only be fifty left. Not to mention the five-to-one military strength ratio, more than half of the casualties would definitely lead to the collapse of the entire army. of.
According to Guo Huai's prediction, the first wave of the battle between the two armies would cause at least twenty or thirty casualties to the enemy. After a quarter of an hour of fighting, Zhang Xi's army should have been defeated.
But the actual situation was different from what Guo Huai thought.
The first wave of the battle between the two armies did cause a relatively large number of casualties to Zhang Xi's army, but there were no casualties of twenty or thirty people. At best, they were only casualties of a dozen soldiers.
After all, the first vanguard of Zhang Xi's army to bear the impact were long shield soldiers. They had little offensive power but extremely strong defensive capabilities.
As for Guo Huai's soldiers, the first wave of attacks did cause casualties of twenty or thirty people, all of whom were stabbed by the spearmen hiding behind the long-pai soldiers.
And the subsequent battle process made Guo Huai a little dumbfounded. Why was it that his own soldiers had such a higher casualty rate? !
I really can’t understand this Guo Huai.
For this battle, the two sides must select the elite of the army. Guo Huai was mentally prepared for this. Moreover, judging from the scene, the formations of thousands of men on both sides had similar armor coverage rates. Guo Huai also had psychological expectations.
But at least half of my soldiers are veterans from Qingzhou soldiers, and the remaining half are veterans of hundreds of battles who followed me from Liangzhou to Guanzhong! ! !
Why can your Shu bandit soldiers fight against these veterans of many battles and achieve a better casualty ratio despite their inferior strength? !
This Guo Huai really can't accept it, it feels like he has broken through his own three views.
In fact, in terms of combat experience and personal qualities of the soldiers, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty are indeed not as good as the elite Wei army brought by Guo Huai, but the soldiers of the Han Dynasty also have their advantages.
The army led by Zhang Xi is composed of Yuanyang Formation soldiers who have been trained by Zhang Fei for a long time. The Yuanyang Formation soldiers are proficient in the essence of multi-arms joint operations. They only need to do what they should do to unleash the maximum power of the battle formation.
Although Cao Jun's elite also had some concepts of joint operations, most of them still relied on bravery to charge. In terms of cooperation at the team level, they could not match the tacit cooperation of the Yuanyang Formation soldiers.
Of course, if it were just that, a three-to-one military strength comparison would not be enough to sustain the Han soldiers for so long. After all, no matter how tacitly they cooperated, the disadvantage in strength would be too great.
What really allows the Han army to maintain its combat effectiveness and reduce the casualty ratio is the most special function of the Yuanyang Formation - the Yuanyang Formation can absorb the remaining troops on the battlefield at any time and reorganize the combat formation.
In the past battlefields, if a small team suffered more than one-third casualties, they would basically be fighting on their own. Facing an organized enemy force, they would be basically unable to resist and would be easily killed and scattered. There is no cooperation between them and they are easily defeated by others.
But the soldiers of the Yuanyang Formation did not have such restrictions. The two remnant armies came together and merged with each other. The shield soldiers still did what the shield soldiers should do, and the pike soldiers still did what the pike soldiers should do. There is no need to re-coordinate.
This is the reason why Zhang Xi's army has been able to block the impact of Guo Huai's army, reduce the battle loss ratio, and persist.
After watching for a while, Guo Huai also discovered the combat characteristics of Zhang Xijun. Gritting his teeth, Guo Huai ordered to continue the attack.
Anyway, I have the upper hand, so let's just grind it out. Even if the battle loss ratio is two to one, I can afford to lose a hundred people. Can you, Zhang Xi, afford to lose fifty? !
The final victory will be mine after all!
(End of chapter)
